I'm planning to hire a UX designer to create some wireframes for me, I am aware that he will need some detailed information about how i would like the site to work etc. To preempt his requests I'm wondering: what would you require to begin wireframing a social networking site? do you need user goals? design principles/guidlines? user e...
My question is more towards learning the UI skillset for iPhone dev. I have been noticing a lot of iPhone developers who build great iPhone application, and when I say great I mean the awesome interfaces. I want to be able to create similar interfaces but I am finding it hard to learn how to do that. I have picked up a few iPhone dev ...
Let's say you are designing a web application for internal business use. Should a page be designed to not scroll, and either use paging or have scrollable sub-sections (tables, grids, etc) or is it better to allow the page to simple scroll. What happens when you have a long page that requires a Save/Cancel button or other such buttons. ...
I have an idea for a new desktop environment that involves a radically different user interface than existing ones, and I want to begin prototyping it. However, I don't want to go through all the trouble of building it from scratch just for the prototype, so I want to build it on top of an existing desktop environment so I can have immed...
What are some ways to handle UI for Countries, States/Province and zipcode? When a user selects US we display a "state" dropdown. What are some ways to handle non-US states/provinces and zipcodes? Should we show an "Other Country" in the state/province dropdown and add a texbox for the user to enter their province if it's not a US o...
I am working on a old J2EE struts app which has very bad UI design. Most of the pages are misusing the screen real estate like there are uneven spaces among dropdown, labels, text boxes etc. Alignment of different items on page is not very efficient leading to space wastage. And sometimes users are forced to use unnecessary scroll bars w...
In the following JTreeBasics.java file, is it possible to have different images for BlackBox and WhiteBox nodes? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.event.*; import javax.swing.tree.*; import java.lang.reflect.*; public class JTreeBasics{ JFrame f; DefaultMutableTreeNode root,n1,...
More and more applications are moving to the cloud: Google Docs for productivity apps, Meebo for instant messaging, Gmail for e-mails, Salesforce for CRM, etc. Yet, I've noticed that, unlike their desktop counterparts, very few of those web apps leverage the mouse's "right click". Most of the time, when right clicking in a web app, I g...
1) I want to create a List by touch and dragging icons from a Master List. 2) Also have the ability to Delete items in this newly created List or Rearrange their order. Is there some code sample one could look at or possible design pointers on cleanly accomplish this functionality. I realize UITableView could accomplish this. But doi...
I have an Excel spreadsheet that is used to collect data from a user, and is used to populate our database. I need to produce an asp.net page that can be used to collect this data instead. I'm having some difficulty coming up with the best way to get this data, the current spreadsheet is used to allow the user to define a number of pack...
I'm staring at this page wondering which control is a textbox. Seems like it should be obvious, but I don't see it. http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_control.htm Also, is there a built-in "Browse" button to select a file from disk? Or do you have to code all that yourself? Thanks, Neal ...
I am writing a questionnaire in ASP .NET MVC. The format of the questionnaire is one yes/no question per page. The questionnaire is a safety questionnaire where, for the majority of the time the user will answer no to the questions. Should I set the default state of the radio buttons to 'no' to save the majority of the users time (enhanc...
hi, i am adding widgets to a horizontal panel, and i want them to be all once next to the other on the left corner. even though i have set the spacing=0 and alignment= left the widgets still have space between them. they are spread evenly in the panel. please see the code here for the widget C'tor and the function that adds a new tab ...
When to use Composite Application Library? For example: simple desktop application (WPF) with 3 - 4 forms (windows).Is it good idea to use CAL in this case? ...
We have an Intranet web page that displays reports based on some search criteria. The controls for the search criteria are at the top of the page and the report grid is the only content on the page. The grid will typically display more than 50-100 rows and will require scrolling. What page design is more appropriate from a UX perspective...
Using VB 2008 .NET 3.5 I am working on an N-Layer desktop application. Suppose a method in the BLL runs into an situation where the user needs to be notified and the method needs to wait for the user input (OK, Cancel, etc.) before continuing. How do you typically handle this? Assume that this situation happens fairly often but not a...
Has anyone seen this problem? Is there a method I can call from my page to force the popup to initialize and load all inner controls? Thanks! ...
Hi i am having problem when try to change tab the code below is working $('#tabs').tabs('select', 1); WORKING FINE the code below var nextTab=$('#nextTab').val(); $('#tabs').tabs('select', nextTab); IS NOT WORKING the nextTab vairiable is valid tab index Its drive me crazy! What am i missing Thanks ...
Possible Duplicate: Ruby on Rails keybard shortcuts Hi all - does anyone know how to set-up keyboard shortcuts using Ruby on Rails on my website? For example if a user want to interact with the site using keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking buttons/links how would I do this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Max. ...
I am trying to create a custom progress bar in android. I have used the following xml file for it (progress_bar_horizontal.xml): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@android:id/background"> <shape> <corners android:radius="8dip" /> ...