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Designing User Interfaces

When working with UI, it is important to understand a few design basics. This chapter will cover the foundation of designing UI as well as a few key concepts to start you off in the right direction.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

Defining UI and GUI
Describing the four types of interfaces
Choosing a UI layout and color scheme
Defining interface metaphors
Discerning and setting resolution and aspect ratio

This book is not about the art of designing UI. It is a technical text that discusses implementation of UI functionality. However, I do want to discuss some basic design principles of UI design. I don't expect you to be an amazing UI artist after reading this chapter. I do hope that you ...

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