user-interface

What are good software for creating icons?

I am looking for software that can draw some web ui icons like butttons or navigation tabs etc. I've tried fireworks and liked it but trial expired. I used to make simple buttons using ms paint but it drives me nuts trying to make it fancy. I could pay for fireworks but would like to know is there is any decent program I can get for fre...

jQuery animation glitch: functions fire in wrong order when mousing across to quickly

NOTE: I didn't write the script in question, my collegue did. Just volunteering to get some input on this for us. Please pardon incorrect terms or descriptions that sound like a noob; I'm not a scripting guy, I'm an HTML/CSS guy. The page in question: http://cure.org/curekids/kenya/2010/02/joseph_muchiri/ A screenshot of the issue: ...

CSS / Other templates for Business Web App

I'm working on a scheduling application that will schedule students and staff into classes (and do some other administrative work as well.) It's going to need a web-based UI, and unfortunately I'm not that good at UI design and artistic stuff, so I prefer to work with templates when I can. I'm looking for CSS templates (or just plain i...

Is there an image design community that collaborates with developers to create applications with a better and more polished look and feel?

So after a lot of hard (and fun) work in development I’ve finally gotten fairly close to the end of my application development..or so I thought. I’m developing a game for Android (but that’s irrelevant to this post). Up until now, the images/drawables I was using were placeholders that took 5 minutes in MSPaint to create. So, now that...

Changing the window control buttons in WPF

I see that many applications do not have a title bar, but still have the window controls in the upper right corner. These are also styled differently than the normal windows form controls. Is it possible to achieve this effect in WPF? Here are some examples: Zune Desktop software: http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii356/elpedrogra...

How to draw or make a calendar?

Hey, I am trying to make/draw a calendar. I am currently using canvas to draw it but I was wondering if anyone knew of a better way? I just want to display a month view of a calendar. I have .ics files on an SD card. The only difficulty I am having is how to draw the actual calendar. I also am trying to to make it so when the user click...

Jquery - prevent ajax requests from "stacking" up.

Alright there's two ways this can go. One is from the presentation side, and one is from the "processing" side. Right now I have a table of data set up. Certain actions (typing a search query, clicking a different page number, etc...) trigger a function called refreshData() refreshData() first calls showOverlay() which fades in an over...

How to capture user interface mockups and requirements

What kind of tools are used by product management folks to capture user interface layouts (includes detailed information on all elements within a screen) for various screens in a web2.0 product. We have used Visio in the past, but are there any other tools to capture this information? ...

What kind of UI controls are available to capture distance from a certain location

We need to capture user input for searching within a certain distance:- a) find hotels within a 10 km radius b) find pizza restaurants within a 5 km radius Looking for suggestions on a suitable UI widget / control to capture distance information ...

How to capture screen snippets and share it with users

Sometimes you might like a screen snippet in a certain web page, you would ideally would want to capture that and probably add some notes to a portion of the user interface. What kind of tools are available to capture this information and share it with other users. ...

does this design have a good usability?

hello, i am writing a financial application and i need to write a specialized file open dialog for the user to be able to load stock data files in two different formats: Computrac and CSI. my dialog has a list view where i need to show these data files. the format of CSI files can interpreted in three different ways and i need to ask ...

How can a total newbie design a UI with Blend 3 ?

Hi guys, I am totally new to WPF. I learned that Blend is a tool that is used to design UI for WPF applications. Is there a standard procedure to follow while designing UIs ? Can you give demo examples of UI with source code? ...

JToolbar doesn't show on Ubuntu if set to BasicToolBarUI

Hi, I've decided to have my own custom UI of JToolBar by subclassing BasicToolBarUI, as part of my Swing program. It works great under OS X (10.6) and Windows (7), but when it comes to Linux, problem occurs: If the swing component is Using SystemLookAndFeel (With Java LAF it is shown) Using UI BasicToolBarUI (To simplify the problem...

To target=_blank or not to target=_blank, that is the question!

Should links to external sites set target=_blank? E.g. I am on www.acme.net and have a link to www.otherplace.net, should that link be: <a href='http://www.otherplace.net' target='_blank'>otherplace's website</a> or: <a href='http://www.otherplace.net'>otherplace's website</a> I was under the impression that using _blank to...

Interface design of a java project "File Finder"

I am working on a project File Finder in java. I have to design the interface from where user interacts and access database. I want to know what are the basic items of applet i need to use for it. I have added two combo boxes and labes one for file extension and other for file name and a submit button.Are there any other items neccessar...

Problems about creating an iPhone Piano UI

Hi, I'm trying to create an iPhone piano app. I have created 14 different UIImageViews in Interface Builder, to represent the keys. With touchesBegan, touchesMoved, touchesEnded and touchesCancelled I then tried to play the audio files. So once the sound is played when you move your finger (touchesMoved) I have solved with a NSMutableA...

Why doesn't MS apply the ribbon UI to Visual Studio?

We have seen that office has the ribbon UI since 2007. Now is 2010 and we all feel the great productivity the ribbon has brought to us. My question is why Visual Studio, now 2010, still not use the ribbon? What do you think? Please share. ...

make an osx preference panel with section

I need to make a preference panel with section like this. but what is the exactly compoment has effect like these (section I means "General,Accounts,RSS...") ...

PyGTK - Adding Rows to gtk.TreeStore

After following the official tutorial here: tutorial I'm still having issues adding rows/creating a TreeIter object. Here's what my code looks like: builder = gtk.Builder() self.treeview = builder.get_object("treeview") self.treestore = gtk.TreeStore(str) self.treeview.set_model(self.treestore) self.id = gtk.TreeV...

Tips for Rapid iPhone/iPad Development

Hi everyone, For my job, I've been writing an iPad application that the user can enter data into, view some pictures, etc. It's been annoying me that I'm reaaaallly slow at writing in Obj-C and I find myself bogged down in the UI (an example would be I always have to put in a UITableView which is time consuming...) I think that I have a...