Learning Claris FileMaker

FileMaker can basically do anything.

Scripts and calculations are just part of the puzzle in any Claris FileMaker solution. Martha Zink from Proof+Geist focuses on the importance of UI/UX, showing different ways that thinking about the user and their experience can be a game changer.

It's not just about pretty shapes and colors.

Users have a certain expectation in mind and meeting them is important for the success of your app.


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With FileMaker 17 comes a variety of new features and capabilities.

Watch our video to learn more about customizing the platform’s Master Detail functionality.

Now that FileMaker can detect iBeacons that are in range, FileMaker apps have a new way to provide information to users.

In this video, Martha Zink shares a demo file created by Bill Heizer, showing how FileMaker Go can use iBeacons to provide valuable information to attendees of a boat show, giving them live information about nearby vendors.

Central navigation in Claris FileMaker can enhance your solution.

Download our demo file and apply it to your own solution.

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Central navigation is an overarching menu (or button/tab) system where you can go from anywhere to anywhere within software, regardless of context.

Another kind of navigation is specialized – where you link directly to a specific element in your solution.

This post explores a technique for building a data-driven, hierarchical navigation menu that will level up (...) your apps in ways that are both intuitive for users, and quite slick for us FileMaker nerds.

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The FileMaker platform is one of the best tools out there for improving and extending your business and the way you manage your data and workflow.

So why does the UI matter?

Why does the experience of the user matter?

Because we’ve all grumbled at bad design.

Because we’ve all yelled at our screen when a website “doesn’t make sense.”

Because bad UI makes for sad users.

As a developer, you have the ability to make users happier people, better workers, and more productive employees.

My slides focused on some key questions to ask your users, so that you can empathize and understand what they’re dealing with.

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Visually, the biggest change in FileMaker 14 is the new Script Workspace - formerly known as ScriptMaker.

Martha Zink walks you through you new best friend.

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