user interface

[ou]

Hi all,

Can any one advise me on how to make my user interface looks more fancifull? Adding animations?Attached is my programme.

best Regards

[andre.buurman@carya]

Userinterface design should in my opnion be functional before fancy. It all depends on the person you're trying to please. Looking at your application it appears to a production tool of some sort. In that case I would suggest simpler is better. Less colour is better, use colour functional, e.g Green is OK and Red is Wrong.

[LV_Pro]

In fact there have been some books about UI in LabVIEW. Simpler is usually better, originally there was an attempt to make LabVIEW UI's look like actual instruments, which wasn't a bad thing, Tektronix and HP (now Agilent) as well as others had done tons of work making their interfaces work well. Now there seems to be this "make it look Windows like" move among some, which I'm not sure is optimal, particularly, like which version of Windows? While some other User Interface software makes it easier to do the "cool" stuff, like automate tanks filling/draining, showing motors running or flow through pipes, it can, for the most part, be done in LabVIEW. There have been a lot of papers on the subject as well

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5319

or Tomi Maila's blog    that discusses LabVIEW UI design