Hi there folks, I'm trying to get some ideas about how to develop a web login screen. I'm using DynamicData Webforms, so most of powerful frameworks offers a lot of options, but I'll be very grateful to read your suggestions. Thanks in advance Edited: beyond the functionality, I'll want to read your view-point about the presentation mo...
I'm looking for any examples anyone might have seen of how to effectively present a list of items (about 1500 total) so that multiple items can be selected. I've seen a couple similar question where the answer suggest an auto-complete, which works to select a single item, but that doesn't address how to allow users to select multiple it...
Even though I am an experienced programmer and engineer, I find that I always run into tedious problems when dealing with networks. Rarely do installations of routers etc work out of the box, and you find yourself trying to learn all kinds of acronyms like WPA, UPnP, etc, and have a hard time trying to map these with the conceptual logic...
I am writing a high performance system in portable modern c++. A lot of STL and Boost. I'd like to start building some front ends to this system. Ordinarily I would opt to use a non c++ solution to a UI, however this is meant to be a very high performance UI, meaning low latency to respond to messages, high volume of messages to sort and...
This is a question for anyone that has dealt with UI's or has a passion for UI's. There are numerous good user interface designs. Ranging from the iPhone UI (Black transparency w/blue highlights), to Windows XP (Blue and green fisher price), to Mac OS X (Blue/Grey matte), to the colourful World of Warcraft UI. What makes one user inter...
There is not official standard dealing with the layout of about boxes, which display the credits of a computer software and other information. What should a good about box contain? And... is it okay to put an easter egg in? ...
I am looking for some websites that have actual screenshots of web applications, as well as, things like login screens, grids/tables, edit forms, css examples and so on. I find that looking at other applications helps with the creative process when designing and styling my own applications. I am able to get quite a few by googling fo...
I understand that you can use forms authentication to grant/deny access to certain pages based on the criteria of your choosing. However I wish to go in a little more specific than that and say, have different buttons appear for users based on thier permissions. I know I could do something like if(((User)ViewData["CurrentUser"]).IsEmp...
Working with VS.NET 2008, output type Class Library, Target Framework .NET 2.0 I've come up with a simplified scenario to ask this question. I have a Button user control, its a simple panel with a single big button on it. I want to create a RedButton control that extends Button, and similarly, a GreenButton.e.g. Class RedButton : Butt...
This is a perennial question for me that I've never really resolved so I'd like your input. If I have actions that I know a user will not be able to perform due to insufficient privileges or object state, should the UI elements for those actions be hidden from the user, visible but disabled, or visible and result in an error if attempte...
Hi, I'm looking for a Web UI toolkit for a Rails-based application. I have an experience with YUI but not in a Rails context. I have many questions I wish you could help me to answer. Do you use a web UI toolkit like YUI, ExtJS or JxLib within your Rails application ? Which UI toolkit is the most Rails-friendly ? Since most are not ba...
Hello everyone, Kindly point towards theory/material to read for understanding colors and what makes a good color combinations. Mind it that I am not interested in say "Color combinations for web application" etc. More of the lines of say "Colors and humans". Material free to read is what i am looking for. Thanks ...
Is it possible to rename all the tabs in a jQuery UI tab control? My tabs are numbered from 1..N, and it is possible to remove a tab from it. I want to "rename" the remaining tabs so they are numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 1,2,3,5,6,7 when you remove the fourth tab. They should end up named by their 1-based index. ...
I have what seems like a typical usage scenario for users downloading, editing and uploading a document from a web page. User clicks a link to download a document User edits downloaded file User saves the file User goes back to the web page and uploads the new file with the changes The problem is that downloaded files are typically s...
Suppose you're designing a tourism site and you want to let your users compile a list of "Potential Destinations" so that you can send them hot deals for only those places. This list consists of an arbitrary number of cities picked from the universe of cities. The universe has (say) 1000 cities, and the average list will consist of (say...
Does anyone have any suggestions for a site that potentially has some inspirational user interfaces for building my own iPhone Apps. It's straight forward to continually build out applications with the conventional UIKit widgets, but it does not set you apart from the competition. Some resources on how to build attractive interfaces is h...
If I have Java program and I need to alter it to an interface and include icons, is there any easy I can do this and is there a good application that can help me to do it ? or do I have to code it in myself? ...
What is the suggested pattern for providing realtime UI updates in a web application? For example, whilst answering a question on SO and another user submits an answer and a prompt appears. Also, if every page in your site provides this function, how do you avoid overloading the server with too many AJAX calls? ...
I am very interested in user interface design and application interaction. Are there any colleges or technical schools that offer degrees or programs in this area of study? ...
Does anyone know if you can obtain the following user interface components as seen in various adobe products for use in ones own product? Treeview (Adobe Acrobat) Collapsable Toolbars (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator) ...