Client insists that users see disclaimer/legal/iAccept screen/text on their way into the web application. Same Client already perceives users as not reading that sort of text when presented with it. How do you design/decorate/etc this sort of screen/text in a web application so that users will actually read the content? I'm hoping som...
Hi, I am creating a social networking ( yet another ) website targeting specific non-technical audience. How do I make it look/feel more professional ? How do you prepare a website so it feel authentic ? I am looking answer in terms of usability, font selection, colors, navigation, level of ajax, form design, link position, how to...
We've got a surprisingly complex workflow that needs to be monitored by a quasi-technical employees with an in-house webapp. There's about 30 steps, some of which are manual (editing), some are semi-automated stop points (like "the files have been received" or customer approval of certain templates), and some are completely automated (f...
When is it acceptable to make clicking a hyperlink open a new browser window? Does there need to be an indication on the link or image that makes this occur? What are the guidelines - and why? ...
We have a simple table with say (nxm matrix) and the user will randomly select a set of entries based on the following conditions. Our layout is like this (just pseudo code) <table> <thead> <tr> c:forEach 1...31 <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> // could be 30 | 40 | 50 rows ...
I have a linear layout in which each row is inflated programatically and I want the rows to behave like the ListView when clicked on. That is, I want the row to highlight in the exact same way/colour that the default ListView does. How would I go about doing this? ...
I want to diplay an image so that it takes up a minmum width of the screen and should scale in its aspect ratio (the image width might be smaller or larger than the minimun width) I also want to have a fixed size border around this image. This is my xml section for it: <ImageView android:id="@+id/detailed_view_boxArt" an...
I have an image under Resources group named "DownArrow.png" Open your viewController.xib Drag & drop an imageview select imageview & press command+1 ( for attribute inspector ) now set image name DownArrow.png save your viewController.xib close it now reopen it. you will find imageview with different image ( which is really a downArrow...
I need a variable countdown timer for between 1-10 seconds, that can be stopped and restarted. What's a good set of UI elements to use for this? I need something intuitive that uses a fairly small amount of screen real estate, comparable to a normal-sized JButton. A windup kitchen egg timer would be the best physical analogy: NOTE: I ...
I haven't worked on the UI in some time. I thought that in ASP.NET 4.0, gridviews handle the paging automatically (if you set paging=true). Is this true, or do you still have to handle it in code? ...
I searched everywhere but is there an alternative for http://www.dailymarkup.com/ ...
I am planning to make a web application, using silverlight for frontend. requirement is: this frontend will be just an empty shell, and it must be language independent. it will get everything it needs to display and use from server, therefore making it language independent. i tried to find tutorials, but there is nothing. as far as i u...
Hey all, I'm looking for any resources on choosing "good" colors based on one specified color. Specifically if I gave an input of say... #6e93a8, a nice corporate blue, it could spit out a darker blue for a border color and perhaps a white or black for text based on how dark the given color is. Keep in mind I can input any hex value. I...
Hi, Recently my company has decided to rebuild an enterprise portal, which will be used by people across the globe to resister there product for extended warranty. They have come up with J2EE ( spring MVC ) and Oracle as technology stack for the Business layer, and have decided to use JSF (java server faces) to design the front-end st...
I have been learning the basics of J2ME and can develop applications with a minimal UI. However I get stuck when I try to make apps with complicated UI. It's the flow of data between the different forms which has me stumped. Is there any tutorial or book which has examples of "design patterns" of UI development for J2ME ? ...
This may sound a little strange, but I'm making a game for the Android phone, but I don't own one myself. I'm in a bit of a loss in designing my UI and need some suggestions from Anroid phone owners. The general idea is to have a screen where a user can start a board from the beginning or load a previous save game. I'm trying to minimi...
Hi, Actually I made a user control that its interface is like "glass windows" in windows vista and seven. My pattern was this url: extremestudio.ro/blog/?p=99 using "Photoshop" and draw every layer with C# and .Net drawing classes, I finally draw it. In first step, i create a bitmap class and then each layer will be drawn on it using gr...
Specifically in MVVM Light toolkit? I've not dove into the Prism code yet to see what it does in regard to regions in a WPF UI. Seems like with the messaging and the ViewModelLocator in MVVM Light you could do a similar thing....Can you? Can anyone give some examples on how you could do this? Essentially I'd like to click on a button...
how to arrange dialogs programmatically in MFC in cascade format, other than simply using SetWindowPos based upon the position of the previous displayed window. The Dialog position is to be loaded from the registry(in my app) so we use SetWindowPos(NULL,x,y,cx,cy,SWP_NOZORDER); for the dialog , Ater then if we use CascadeWindows func...
I have a number of utilities that were written in the days of yore and look very dated. So I recently set out to make them use Windows themes and wanted to incorporate some Aero glass effects. Thing is, I'm not quite sure what the appropriate use is. IE7 and now Firefox 4 glass the top part of the window including the toolbar, but that ...