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Java called. Wants its GridBagLayout back. It says it might be patented and can probably litigate.
Java called. Wants its GridBagLayout back. It says it might be patented and can probably litigate.
OP here. SwiftUI has it too. Ideal to implement the results. But they're not great for finding the solution as they are magnitudes slower than spreadsheet manipulation.
I draw my UIs on paper and just calculate the cells and merges, then code it. I'm a pen and paper addict when designing software (ideas, algorithms, UI).
It's not the fastest, but the most focused mode for me.
For me a much better approach for working on wireframes, which I'd say this post is about, is Figma or Penpot.
I’ve never used spreadsheets for prototyping but I’ve used slides. Those have a grid system too – you just need to toggle its visibility and enable “snap to grid.”
A spreadsheet-like interface shows a lot of information, but it is not overwhelming because it stays fixed, so after using the software a couple of times you can remember where things are.
Monodraw is also good for UI design. The minimal-looking rendering of the interface gets right to the core of how the thing is supposed to work. Really it’s just the spreadsheet method taken to its logical end.
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OP here. SwiftUI has it too. Ideal to implement the results. But they're not great for finding the solution as they are magnitudes slower than spreadsheet manipulation.
Hi! Nice article, tbh. I draw my UIs on paper and just calculate the cells and merges, then code it. I'm a pen and paper addict when designing software (ideas, algorithms, UI). It's not the fastest, but the most focused mode for me.
~2008 a friend at a consulting co. showed me how they drafted UIs in Excel. Having seen that, in 2015 I began working on a UI drafting software for that kind of technical designers. We ended up getting rid of the layout thinking overhead while drafting. They call it Content-First Design. If you'd like to try it it's free: https://uxtly.com
Hi, I am interested in this tool but I could not even grasp how does it trying to solve the problem as the video is buffering each second. I watch youtube too so it is not my connection I assume
- W11: emoving directory line tracing from File Explorer and nesting all file locations under "Desktop"
- Spotify: removing the iPod-style sub-locations for Artists, Albums, Playlists, etc. and instead showing them all as a continuous "library" where you filter for content based on buttons that reorder themselves and spill off the right side of the screen
- Google: constantly reordering the "images", "shopping" etc buttons depending on what it thinks you're most likely to click on
And it slows everything down! Every application seems to need to send telemetry back to the hosts. Spotify won't even render your "downloads" section in under 20 seconds if you're not connected to the Internet.
Not only is this modern UI field hell for actually experienced users (where are the function grids? Why is everything a two-color React card now?), I believe it's dumbing down non-technical users.
I sometimes send a picture of a well-ordered woodshop wall and a picture of a Tesla interior to sinternal company designers to ask them to stop turning every functional tool our internal ops people use into a point-and-click iPad program for toddlers. Give us the woodshop, not the white-seat-and-tablet view. Even that doesn't always work! I recently sent some devs an Excel mockup of a very tight, neat "task creation form" menu and they turned it into a disorganized nightmare of React fields with none of the visual justification and sorting enabled by the spreadsheet view. What is going on? Why are people allergic to functional UIs all of a sudden?
Irrelevant but spreadsheets have always struck me as one of the most beautiful pieces of software that we use. Automatically updating calculations, programming logic complex anough for most ERPs, using it is a database, easy organisation of data, graphs -- it has it all. From both a user and developer perspective, they are one of the most diverse tools on a computer. MS may make terrible software sometimes, but damn…