user-interface

Ok and Cancel button on right OR left side of the Dialog window?

what is better concerning user intuitive usage? OK...Cancel or Cancel...OK in a Dialog Window? edit: arghhhh I stepped in a trap :P seems some user misunderstood me... I do not mean having OK and Cancel on the left/right side of the dialog. what I mean is should the OK button be right-handed to the Cancel button or other way round?...

What is the difference in work and responsibility between all Web Development Job's designations/Title?

What is the difference in work, software/coding/programing/designing skills, and responsibility between all these Job designations/Title? I found all these terms in jobs posted on linkedin.com and on various job sites under category IT - Software. when i search for jobs in Web development. Graphic Designer Digital Designer Web Design...

UX: Reducing clutter and visual overload

I am working on this project (web-based) where users can login and see a list of tasks assigned to them. Right now there are only a few columns and the presentation is somewhat clear and uncluttered. Task | Assigned to | Due Date | etc .... | Actions Do this | Jane Doe | Tomorrow | .... | Com...

Arrow in jQuery Dialog

Is there any way by which I can show an arrow tip on left of jQuery dialog? I would like to achieve functionality as mentioned in image below. How to do this with Theme roller CSS and icons? ...

Best practice for warning the user they will lose data.

I have a site which uses a lot of JavaScript (mainly jQuery) and I need a nice global way to let the user know that they will lose unsaved changes when they navigate away from a particular page. At the moment I have an onchange event placed on the inputs and wrap my main navigation in a function which will display the warning when click...

What is the proper name for a multibutton?

Hello, I'm trying to design a UI in Qt and I can't find anywhere in the designer a button which can be "droped down" like combobox. What I mean by that is that I would like to have this button with his "default" option choosen so if I like it I would have to just click on it but if I would like to choose different option I would be able ...

What are some good UX books?

I am interesting in creating a better User Experience (UX). There are a lot of books out there, what are some that would be useful to a software engineer? ...

UI Builder fo CSS Framework

Hi! Did anybody knows any opensource "UI Builder" (based on javascript or adobe air or something else) for any CSS Framework or own? Thanks! ...

Seeking advice on js library for building a dynamic form generator.

Hi- Today, I'm building a little form generator for my firm. It would ask for someone to Add a Field, choose the field type (text field, checkbox, etc), name it and then add another and another if they want. I'd like to achieve this without having to go server side for each element. In other words, I want to take this opportunity to b...

How to change interface language in SQL Server Management Studio?

How to change interface language in SQL Server Management Studio? ...

wxWidgets/Python Gradient Editor?

This open source fractal program Fraqtive, which uses Qt, has a really cool little gradient editor for coloring your fractals: http://fraqtive.mimec.org/node/34 Does anyone know of any nice gradient editing interfaces that use wxWidget/wxPython? ...

Android Popup picker?

I am looking for the right UI widget to use for this requirement: When the user clicks a button, a modal list appears, the user clicks and item and then the focus is returned to the active Activity. ...

Android Suite of UI controls?

When I write web apps I rely on frameworks like jQuery, likewise in WinForm I use DevExpress's UI. Is there a UI framework with fancy looking buttons, graphics, transitions etc etc that I can rely on to build great looking apps ? ...

Javascript UI Library - CMS Rebuild

I am about to start rebuilding my company's CMS from the ground up, the DB structure and a lot of the functionality will remain the same concentrating on the UI. I was going to build it using JQuery UI as that is what we use on most of the sites, but I thought before I stated that it might be worth an ask around to if something like Moch...

Noise effect on Android background

Hello, A lot of new Android applications I've been seeing are using a noise effect on their backgrounds, usually a gradient. What interesting is that some applications use radiel gradients throughout their application with this effect, which would require a lot of disk space for the images. Now Android has GradientDrawable which can cre...

Tabs in Jquery UI Dialog Not Working in IE

I noticed that when I show up a modal dialog using Jquery UI in IE, once I reach the last control in the modal dialog, the tab focus goes out of the modal dialog and into the other parts of the browser. This is not the behavior in FireFox, wherein the focus loops back to the starting control of the modal dialog. To see how this weird be...

Monobjc and Mac UI for Windows Application

Hi there, I've got an application which was written in C# and is running on Windows and Linux using Mono. Now we need a native user interface for the Mac. Is there a way of doing this using Monobjc? Did anyone ever work with it? Is there any other approach? Thanks for your help –f ...

WPF updating UI when binding source changes

Hi guys. I have a WPF app with a listbox and a contentcontrol. The contentcontrol content is bound to the listbox and has a datatemplate that displays a textbox whose content is bound to a variable of the selected item in said listbox. So far, everything works well, i.e. when I select an item from the listbox the textbox content changes ...

XML for User Interface Definition

I'm looking for information to choose a XML for User Interface Definition to build UI in new project. The project's objective is running in both web and desktop environments and support cross-platform. Therefore I focus on XUL and XForms but I'm not familiar with the XForms. Please give me some advices, what are cons and pros and the fut...

JAVA JSF Managed bean request using ui:repeat

Hello, I have noticed a small issue with ui:repeat and checkboxes - the information is not passed back if the rendered or disabled attributes are set. I am not sure why it occurs or rather what is the offending code. The code given below is high level of what I am working with. My goal is to have a bean that display uploaded file with t...