I didn't know whether to post this in the thread which i already made about
.Net best practices or post it in the design section? whatever its place i do tend to want to discuss and ask a lot about software developing and it seemed a good idea to discuss them in one thread.
anyways,
no matter which code your produce even if it were the most powerful coding ever, and your client don't like the design you can kiss your software goodbye, the fact remains, a client wants a good UI to interact with , with simple and easy to understand layout.
which brings me to my problem concerning how to design a good UI, I think it's a creativity issue which I don't have.
I will post 3 pictures about forms i designed and ask for feedback and how it can be made better
this is how the software starts , asks for the user type, name and password, it's an enum bound to a combo, it simplifies matters when it's only a visitor , a visitor doesn't have a username and a password , so they would be disabled, on value changed of the combo, you have the labels and the picture, the icons are the best ones i could find for free..
i was actually satisfied with it , thought maybe the alignment of the controls still needs work.
when a user selects his user type , the combo will have alternate colors matching the colors of the form, I think i did something right? i will remove the "value" Big word later..
the last picture is the main interface , when the user logs in , it's incomplete just played with it a bit, the idea is if an admin logs in only his appropriate menu will show up, or maybe show them all and disable the rest.
many controls I'm using are infragistics controls, and they are all inside a panel which has colors alpha blending which you can set to blend any 2 colors you want , I don't know if it will show but the 2 colors here are blue and white, you can also set their alignment vertical horizontal ..
feedback?