[NIWeek 2013] LabVIEW GUI Design: Moving Beyond the Palettes

[Sam_Horst]

LabVIEW GUI Design: Moving Beyond the Palettes

Track/Summit: Software Development Techniques

Session ID#: TS1684

Abstract: A successful GUI is intuitive and user friendly, and it makes users more efficient when interacting with the system. At this session, learn how to use third-party tools to design professional GUI elements as well as how to import these elements into the LabVIEW environment. Study real-world examples and discuss the methods used to create them. Also explore the techniques you need to create streamlined, intuitive, and elegant LabVIEW user interfaces.

Speaker(s): Jon McBee, Bloomy Controls, INC.

[Wire_Warrior]

I would love to see some more details on this presentation.  Will further information be added?

[Thoric]

This presentation was largely demos, I believe. If it was recorded by Mark Balla, you can download the recording from here:

http://lavag.org/topic/16091-ni-week-2012-videos/

[bcwilson]

I'll also be working with Jon to write an article based on this presentation soon. If you haven't already, subscribe to NI News Global under e-newsletters here so you don't miss it!

[GreaseMonkey]

Could you also post here when the article is complete? Looking forward to reading it.

[bcwilson]

Will do!

[Todd_Lesher]

The slides briefly mention Aero. Did Jon mention it in the presentation? Would someone mind giving a brief recap of issues with Aero?

[jon_mcbee]

I am working on getting my actual presentation up here so people can play with it.  It is 342 MB (dont know if there are size limitations on files I can post here).

Check back soon

[jon_mcbee]

I didnt go into Aero in any detail, is there anything in particular you are looking for?

[Todd_Lesher]

My mistake.

I've been looking at too many slide sets. One of them had a page on "How Aero affects our UI", or so. I thought it was your slides, but it's not.

[DavidZ.]

Hi Jon, your presentation was awesome. I was wondering if there are any updates on the files upload you mentioned. Would be great to play with the demo files.

[jon_mcbee]

For anyone who is interested, I am working Brittany to distill my NI Week presentation down into a series of articles that will be pubilshed in the NI News newsletter.  The first one was published early this week and can be found here: Creating an Elegant LabVIEW User Interface: Alpha Masks.

[jon_mcbee]

If you would like to pull down the NI Week Presentation code, you can find it here.  It is LV2013, I cant promise it will work if rolled back to 2012, I can promise it wont work if rolled back prior to 2011.