In RAD Studio 10.3, we’re making a number of great improvements to the user interface and usability. Concretely, that’s not just looks: we are carefully making improvements in how to interact with the IDE. Last week, we looked at changes in the main window, where it is much more pleasant to use for long-term (eight-hours-a-day) use, as well a usability improvements like code editor tabs being…
In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons.
In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a number of further UI upgrades we’re…
I’m a big proponent of practical, usable UIs that are easy to understand and pleasant to look at. As an ongoing series,there are a number of blogs postson UI design.
How To Design a Great UI
Apractical approach to taking a mockup or first cut of…
Welcome back! This is the third post on a series on practical UI design, an approach to creating usable, good-looking UIs when you are not a UX expert.
In Part 1, we looked at some basic principles of UI design, a typical UI design workflow, what it means for a UI to be ‘intuitive’, some examples, and started with an example ‘bad’ UI that could be a first cut at a UI for a feature, or the…
An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world (non-demo) apps that you can use with…
Welcome back!Last time, we discussed a typical UX design flow, and how to tackle this if you do not have access to a UX designer. We also looked at some key usability principles, and saw an example ‘bad’ user interface that we will improve step by step through this…
How do you design a user interface (UI) to be understandable and easy to interact with? In this series, I’ll give some thoughts on good design, combined with examples.
This series is intended as practical UI design advice for small teams or individual developers. Many larger teams or companies have UX staff who can advise or run the process of UI design. Typically, a UI design process would be…
C++ has a long history, beginning in 1979, with Cpre, which added classes to C. By 1980, it was C with Classes. And then in December of 1983, the term C++ was first used, suggested by Rick Mascitti. That’s thirty-five years ago this year! Read more in this…
Learn to program C++ with C++Builder Community Edition: #5 Operators, and final application!
July 24, 2018
Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Learning C++ with C++Builder Starter.Last time, we had a calculator and numerical input, demonstrating using boost::optional, smart pointers, and more. This post is shorter: it will finish the calculator with operators…
Welcome!Last timewe looked at the architecture of a simple calculator app, showing how to design an application well by separating the UI and logic, abstracting through interfaces, and ensuring each class had a single responsibility. That’s important stuff, stuff that many developers skip, and is really important. Now we’ve done that, though, we can dig into the…
