Building Sexy User Interfaces in Servoy
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This document summarizes a presentation about building sexy user interfaces in Servoy. The presentation covers the importance of user interface design, attributes of intuitive, sexy and clean interfaces, good and bad design practices with examples, and a live demo. It discusses topics like usability engineering, visual design, interaction design, and using techniques like 9-slice scaling to allow flexible resizing of interface elements.
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- 1. Servoy World 2011 Building Sexy User Interfaces in Servoy Thomas Immich Servoy World 2011 0
- 2. AGENDA • Background Information • Introduction The impact of a well-designed user interface • Intuitive, sexy and clean Attributes that make up a great UI • Good and bad practices Screen design and icon design samples • Live Demo Servoy World 2011
- 4. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Thomas Immich • Design-developer hybrid • Specializes in high-fidelity user interface prototyping • Lead design consultant at several large-scale projects in agile development teams • CEO and co-founder of Centigrade Servoy World 2011
- 5. SELECTED CLIENTS Clients from different industries and countries: USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Germany Servoy World 2011
- 6. 6 INTRODUCTION The impact of a well-designed user interface
- 7. THE IMPACT OF A USER INTERFACE • For the user, the user interface is the application • Question is not only “What can I accomplish with the software in theory?” but also “How good can I accomplish my goals in practice?” Servoy World 2011
- 8. THE IMPACT OF A USER INTERFACE • Feature tiredness • What good is a feature that no one ever finds? • How does the software stand out from the crowd when competitors offer similar features? • The user interface has the most significant impact on how the software is perceived Servoy World 2011
- 9. THE RELEVANCE OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN • User Interface Design is about making user interfaces effective, efficient and satisfying to use • To memorize: • Effective • Efficient • Easy to Learn • Engaging • Error Tolerant Servoy World 2011
- 10. THE RELEVANCE OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN • Disciplines that pave the way for this: • Usability Engineering • Visual UI Design • UI Development Servoy World 2011
- 11. 11 INTUITIVE, SEXY AND CLEAN Attributes that make up a great UI
- 12. INTUITIVE • Intuition = Understanding without apparent effort (just one of many definitions) • Intuition is also about making fast decisions without having to compare options “Don’t make me think” Servoy World 2011
- 13. INTUITIVE? 13
- 14. INTUITIVE? 14
- 15. USABILITY ENGINEERING • Discipline stemming from psychology (e.g. cognitive psychology) • Solving the right problems (by understanding users’ needs and context) • Conceptualizing the fundamental information design and interaction design • Validating that design decisions really work (by evaluating them with real users) Servoy World 2011
- 16. USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS Think user-centric, involve users Servoy World 2011
- 17. LOW-FI PROTOTYPES (WIREFRAMES & SCRIBBLES) 18 Servoy World 2011
- 18. MACRO VS. MICRO-INTERACTION DESIGN • Macro-Interaction Design • Defining what is needed where for users to solve their tasks • Designing the flow and navigation through the application Servoy World 2011
- 19. MACRO VS. MICRO-INTERACTION DESIGN • Micro-Interaction Design • Defining how a component behaves in detail (mouse and keystroke level) • Influences the application’s feel most Servoy World 2011
- 20. VISUAL UI DESIGN • Enhancing the application’s look • No visual abstractions anymore – pixel preciseness • Ideally, visual UI design builds on usability engineering artifacts and “enriches” them Servoy World 2011
- 21. VISUAL UI DESIGN CARES ABOUT… • Screen (fine) layout Distances, proportions, dimensions, alignment • GUI element styles Affordance, clarity, colors, fonts etc. • Icons Intuitive, easily recognizable and aesthetic imagery to rapidly communicate application functionality • Animations Transitions between different GUI states that improve orientation Servoy World 2011
- 22. FROM A WIREFRAME… 24 Servoy World 2011
- 23. …TO A HIGH-FIDELITY MOCK 26 Servoy World 2011
- 24. WHAT IS SEXY ANYWAY? • In this context, it’s definitely not about reproduction • However, it is about attractiveness and appeal • Again: intrinsic values can also be sexy • If we talk of a UI being “sexy” we think of: Aesthetics and Desirability Servoy World 2011
- 25. IS THIS A SEXY DASHBOARD? Servoy World 2011
- 26. IS THIS A SEXY INVOICING SCREEN? Servoy World 2011
- 27. PUTTING „SEXY“ INTO CONTEXT • Attractive things work better than unattractive things and are perceived as being „more usable“ • Emotions can evoke the “I want to have it” effect • The look and feel defines how a software is being perceived • Stable • Professional • Trustworthy • etc. Servoy World 2011
- 28. PUTTING „SEXY“ INTO CONTEXT • Whatever shall be accomplished via visual design: constraints must be considered • Readability • Support for the color vision impaired • Standards compliance • Cultural aspects (BiDi-support, color semantics etc.) • Technical limitations Servoy World 2011
- 29. CLEAN • Everything’s in place • Unnecessary stuff is kept out of sight • Same things look the same and therefore are familiar • If we talk of a UI being “clean” we think of: Information Throughput Servoy World 2011
- 30. IS THIS A SEXY INVOICING SCREEN? Servoy World 2011
- 31. 35 GOOD AND BAD PRACTICES Screen Design and Icon Design
- 34. BAD • This sample does not reflect dependencies between controls. Servoy World 2011
- 36. ONE STYLE PER COMPONENT CLASS… Servoy World 2011
- 37. …VS. ONE STYLE PER USAGE CONTEXT Servoy World 2011
- 40. DOES THIS WELCOME SCREEN WELCOME YOU? Servoy World 2011
- 41. DOES THIS WELCOME SCREEN WELCOME YOU? Servoy World 2011
- 42. THIS IS NOT AN ICON… Servoy World 2011
- 43. BUT THIS ONE IS… Servoy World 2011
- 44. …AND SO ARE THESE Servoy World 2011
- 45. WHY ARE THESE ICONS RECOGNIZABLE AT 16X16 PIXEL? Servoy World 2011
- 46. COHERENT, BUT… Servoy World 2011
- 47. STILL COHERENT, BUT MUCH MORE APPEALING Servoy World 2011
- 48. A DEFINITELY UNSEXY SPLASHSCREEN… Servoy World 2011
- 49. …PUT IN ANOTHER DRESS Servoy World 2011
- 50. STYLISTIC DEVICES • Modern user interfaces require certain stylistic devices • Alphablending (for shadow and glow effects) • Textures (for realistic material effects) • Fluent transitions between different UI states (for better orientation) • Non-rectangular shaped UI elements Servoy World 2011
- 51. DEFINING STYLES • Basic colors and fonts should be defined descriptively (just as known from HTML and CSS) • However, pure descriptive mechanisms (still) have limitations • Alternative: image-based approaches Servoy World 2011
- 52. MODERN VISUAL EFFECTS • GUI elements are assembled from simple pixel- graphics • Advantages • Modern effects can be used (almost) limitlessly • High rendering performance • Designers can work with the visual tool that they know best: Photoshop Servoy World 2011
- 53. NORMAL SCALING VS. 9-SLICE-SCALING • Problem: Pixel-graphics cannot be scaled arbitrarily without suffering from quality issues Scaling of a button Scaling of a button without 9-Slice-Scaling with 9-Slice-Scaling Servoy World 2011
- 54. USING 9-SLICE-SCALING Servoy World 2011
- 55. 9-SLICE-SCALING METHOD • Allows to resize a GUI element without any loss of quality • This method works in Java Swing and CSS3 Servoy World 2011
- 56. 68 “Fine. But… so what?”
- 57. READY-MADE SOLUTION • We are happy to announce that for the Servoy Smart Client all this is now available out of the box: Servoy World 2011
- 58. 81 LIVE DEMO
- 59. 82 OR watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFtSJ 60B2QY
- 60. FROM STANDARD… Servoy World 2011
- 61. …OVER BIZLAF UNTAGGED… Servoy World 2011
- 62. …TO BIZLAF WITH ADDITIONAL STYLES Servoy World 2011
- 63. 86 QUESTIONS
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- 65. MORE ABOUT CENTIGRADE • Articles on UI design topics and UI design inspiration http://www.centigrade.de/blog http://www.centigrade.de/gallery • More about BizLaf http://www.centigrade.de/bizlaf • Browse stock icons with Icon Book http://www.centigrade.de/iconbook Servoy World 2011
- 66. MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER • Follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thomasimmich • Contact me thomas.immich@centigrade.de Servoy World 2011