Posts Tagged ‘example design’

iPhone Contacts Application Prototype Example

Friday, August 13th, 2010

iPhone Contact Info Prototype Screen DesignNow that we’ve posted an updated iPhone Library of GUI design widgets (v1.1), it was time to add a new example to the Gallery that makes use of it.

The iPhone Contacts application prototype example is based on the built-in Contacts application on the Apple iPhone. It was built entirely from elements within the library, very quickly.

Here are some of the key areas this example demonstrates:

  • The typical structure for an iPhone application prototype project in GUI Design Studio.
  • Putting together a Quick Concept flow of the application.
  • The basic elements needed to create the screens.
  • How a typical screen design is put together.
  • How to create a scrolling section on a screen.
  • Flipping between portrait and landscape oriented designs.

The project files can be downloaded from the example gallery page.

I hope this example will help you get your iPhone application prototypes off to a flying start!

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Short Demo on How to Create Scrolling Regions in GUI Design Studio

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Following on from the GUI Design Studio v3.3 release, here’s a short video (05:52) that demonstrates how the scrolling region shown in the previous post was constructed:

For best viewing quality, click on the HD and Full Screen icons once play has started!


Here’s a quick summary of how to produce a scrolling region:

  1. Create a large design.
  2. Create your container design.
  3. Drag and drop your large design onto your container design as a ‘component’.
  4. Double-click the component to edit its properties, as follows:
    • Check the “Maintain size when component changes” option on the Style tab
    • Uncheck “Fixed Width” and “Fixed Height” on the Position tab
    • Set an arbitrary small size to make it easier to work with, say 300 for “Width” and “Height” (Position tab)
    • Hit “OK”
  5. Resize the component to the actual desired size.

That’s it!

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Web Application Design Walkthrough Video

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

The walkthrough video for the Internet Banking Web Application design is now available to view in the Gallery. This gives you a brief (2-minute) tour of the design and points out a few of the key features.

You can download the entire project (only 86 KB) to see how the whole design was put together. The project files can be opened in GUI Design Studio or the free Viewer that can be downloaded from the Gallery.

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Web Application GUI Design Example In The Gallery

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Internet Banking Web Application GUI DesignMost of our design examples so far have focussed on Desktop applications but GUI Design Studio is also highly suited to Web Application design.

From the many requests for a Web Application sample, and the dozens of different kinds of application requested, we’ve put together an Internet Banking example.

We chose Banking because it would be familiar to most people and we also had easy access to a few real examples to crib ideas from (not that we’re lazy – we just didn’t want to spend too much time re-inventing a good design).

This new sample demonstrates:
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GUI Design Studio Clones Microsoft Outlook?

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Following last week’s launch of GUI Design Studio version 2.2, we’ve had quite a few questions about what it’s really capable of and maybe you’ve been wondering about that yourself.

We figured the best way to answer that was by way of an example prototype design. The trouble was, we didn’t have anything big enough or suitable enough in-house and we certainly can’t share any of our customers’ designs.

So we set ourselves a challenge. What could we put together quickly as a good example? Not a simple 5-screen demo, but a fully fledged application. It needed to have real-world appeal and be the type of application that’s familiar to as many of you as possible.

The answer was staring us in the face… (more…)

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