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…
Last week a (large) customer sent me an email indicating he was experiencing issues when compiling the same project on different machines. Turned out the difference was in the source code files format and the root cause was a unit saved as UTF-8but without a BOM. The…
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 series. Finally, we examined that bad UI and some of the questions and confusion a user might have when interacting with it.
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How can you be sure you’ve applied the latest updates for your RAD Studio, Delphi, or C++Builder version? After installing the IDE, there may be updates that were released since the last product installer.
Patches for Version 10.2.3
You can find…
GetIt is the package manager built into RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. It includes 214 packages in8 different categories.
38 Library packages
121 Component packages
53 Internet of Things components
60 Trials
4 Industry Templates
2 IDE Plugins
3 Styles
26 Sample…
Delphi User Group Meeting, London
A couple of weeks ago I was in London for personal reasonsand teamed up with the UK Developers Groupto attend their monthly meeting and talk about Delphi. I offered an introductory talk, some in depth on RAD Server compared to other web service technologies, plus some FireMonkey and VCL insights, and a deep dive on some advanced features of the Delphi…
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…
Blogs on Embarcadero Community: Multi Tier Development and Enterprise SKU
September 25, 2018
I haven’t blogged much here in September, because Iwrote two blogposts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts — I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):
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Beyond RAD Studio Pro: Why Developers Choose Enterprise and Architect
September 18, 2018
RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder come in 3 different editions: Professional, Enterprise and Architect. Until recently we also sold some of the Enterprise features as addons for the Professional version, but that has recently been discontinued. At the same time, we’ve also added additional capabilities to these editions.
This is why I felt it is worth taking a moment to recap what’s the focus…
