Having recently collaborated with Microsoft in accelerating Windows 8 App development, I’ve came up with these design templates to serve as reference in designing Windows 8 Apps, providing more clarity in how to convert a conceptualised design from a Photoshop file into a full-fledged Windows 8 Apps with the use of Blend for Visual Studio.
Download link and more information on these design templates after the break.
When it comes to forms, there are loads of situations where our applications would like the user to be presented with a list of options and allow them to choose not only one, but multiple choices. Achieving that is simple, lets just use a checkbox list!
That’s works great, with 3 choices that is, what if we have a list of like…50 choices?
Ouch, that…might not work out. Even referring to books and sites on UI Patterns didn’t get me the best solution to deal with this scenario, so its back to the drawing table for me.
It wasn’t easy to decide on the best approach, so I’ll step through some of the solutions that I’ve thought of to deal with this problem and cap things up with a conclusion at the very end.
Photo courtesy of flickr user Jason Robb
One of the highest impact design decisions when it comes to software is none other than the overall layout, which should in turn determine the placement and arrangement of information throughout applications.
Many considerations will need to be made to determine the optimal layout to present information, and especially for applications that deal with a huge amount of data, complex processes, client facing, depended upon to perform day-to-day operations by organizations and people and many more. Such decisions could prove to be very impactful indeed – even to the extent of deciding the success or failure of an application.
Here are a few steps that could help get you going when masterminding the overall layout of your applications.
When it comes to XAML based technologies like Silverlight and WPF, there are many ways of approaching the design and styling of the overall GUI. Among them all, when it comes to dealing maintainability, scalability and balancing complexities, especially in enterprise applications, you’ll definitely need Resource Dictionaries.
So…just what is a Resource Dictionary?
It’s great to finally have RIA Blog up and running!
As you might have already expected, this blog will focused on everything related to UI/UX design for RIA solutions. It will also lean more towards XAML-based technologies like Silverlight and WPF, of course with some HTML5/CSS3 as garnishing.