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Rearranging Elements in a User Interface Design

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

How often have you created a user interface layout and found that you need to change the order in which the elements appear?

It happens to me all the time!

The usual way to do this involves creating (or finding) a bit of space somewhere, moving one bunch of elements and controls into the space, shuffling all the other elements around and then closing up the space again. It can be a bit of a hassle sometimes.

Even a simple task of exchanging the positions of two elements can be fiddly when you need to get them properly aligned in their new places and they’re in each other’s way.

So we created the “Swap Element Positions” feature in GUI Design Studio v3.1 to address this common need and save a ton of time and fiddling about.
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GUI Design Studio Plans For 2009

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

In the middle of 2008 we released version 3.0 of GUI Design Studio. This was a major step forward for creating user interface mockups and prototypes with the introduction of the Windows Vista visual style option, Ribbon Bar elements, better Web application support and a bunch of other enhancements.

You may have noticed our new Website redesign and, while we’ve been planning a lot of new product developments, we’ve realised that we didn’t release nearly enough versions of GUI Design Studio in the year as we’d intended. we aim to fix that!

So we’re taking a different approach for 2009. Our new plan is to make a new release of GUI Design Studio roughly once every month so that you can benefit from all the latest updates sooner or upgrade whenever it’s convenient.
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GUI Design Studio 3.0 Does Vista, Ribbons and More – Beta Available

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Your ability to create rapid user interface designs and application prototypes without coding is about to get better with the upcoming release of GUI Design Studio 3.0.

You can now gain early access to 3.0 through our Beta Program but first, here’s a few details about the new version:

With version 3.0, GUI Design Studio has now fully embraced Windows Vista. It was already Vista compatible but all of the elements have now been re-styled to provide the Vista look and feel in addition to the existing XP, NT (Classic) and Outline styles.

These are not separate elements, of course. You can change the style at any time to see what your designs will look like on different Windows platforms or to show an “unfinished mockup” look for review purposes.

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The GUI Design Gallery Is Now Open!

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

GUI Design Gallery Web Site Thumbnail We’ve now set up our GUI Design Gallery on the Caretta Software Web site. This will showcase selected prototypes created using GUI Design Studio. We’ll be adding more designs to the Gallery on a monthly basis.

Each featured design is described with a video walkthough of the prototype in action so you can see how the different features can help you with your designs. We decided to keep the videos silent (for now) because we know how annoying audio can be in an office environment.

The project file for each design is also available for download so you can try out the prototype for yourself and have a look at how the individual design files have been put together. You’ll need the free GUI Design Viewer application for that and there’s a handy download link for it on every page of the Gallery.

Take a look now by visiting http://www.carettasoftware.com/gallery/ and let us know what you think.

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New GUI Design Gallery Opening Soon

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Preparations are under way for a new user interface design gallery on the Caretta Software Web site. This will showcase design prototypes created using GUI Design Studio.

Instead of putting up lots of static screenshots, we’re going to experiment with video clips to show what each design prototype can do.

There’ll also be full descriptions and download links for the design files so that you can try out the prototypes for yourself using the free GUI Design Viewer.