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With the number of uniquely different digital devices entering the market each year to provide users with new ways to connect themselves with technology, the world of digital design has remained in a constant state of growth and evolution.

This rapidly changing landscape has led to the development of different types of user interfaces designs, which range from flat minimalistic components and elements to the more realistic design of skeuomorphism.

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Typically, portals in FileMaker are used for showing related data. However, a portal based on the same table as its layout would simply display the current found set.

If you made the portal large enough, the layout would appear as a list view- which wouldn’t be very helpful.

So, in this blog, we will make the portal smaller and create a powerful layout design, the Master Detail portal.

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A five-pack of interchangeable colored themes for your FileMaker apps, suitable for mobile or desktop use.

Five interchangeable colored themes for your FileMaker apps, suitable for mobile or desktop use

AppWorks almost always begins our projects with a custom theme.

Sometimes that means taking a built-in theme provided by FileMaker and adjusting it, but more often it means taking one of our in-house themes and tailoring it to the needs of a project.

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Personas seem to be one of those subjects that receive as much love as hate from businesses and practitioners in the industry.

I have worked with startups as well as international companies and I have noticed that we do not talk enough about aims and objectives of personas and sometimes businesses use them incorrectly without understanding what to do with them.

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Sanofi-Aventis’s Lithuanian branch was in need to present its products in an interactive yet highly detailed way.

Rapid access to information and slides during medical doctors’ presentations and keynotes was essential.

Company management also required means to achieve an improved perspective of sales team performance and data collection.

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EVENTsight - Guest Management Tool

A full-function event registration service can truly streamline your event planning and attendee management,  although the software and systems required can be expensive and time consuming to learn.

That’s where EVENTsight comes in.  

EVENTsight is a powerful and modular attendee management platform to keep track of your attendees,  from arrival, over sessions and workshops, till departure and post-event reports and communication.

In recent years, design, has become such an important aspect of what we do; luckily FileMaker has responded with a much improved design surface.

With themes and styles, conditional visibility, SVG icon support, and new layout objects, we can now use design and color to communicate with users in ways not previously possible (see, for example, the “Priorities” example in the accompanying demo file).

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Design is important!

FileMaker solutions should not look like databases.

My goal is to give developers things that they can easily incorporate into their own solutions to add vibrancy, appeal, and ultimately better user experiences.

Daniel Wood (aka Weetbicks).

It’s my pleasure to announce that I’ve completely revamped my Shortcuts Library portion of my Shortcuts Catalog, remaking what was previously hundreds of shortcuts into a condensed set of: 25 free example shortcuts 25 membership shortcuts I spent many hours combining each of my 100 or so Shortcuts folders and putting each shortcut inside a single […]

Intent-Driven Design: Storytelling Through Visual Narratives

Make your FileMaker solution beautiful using elementals toolkit of user interface offerings including avatars, placeholders, svg icons, animations and gradients.

Design is important!

FileMaker solutions should not look like databases.

My goal is to give developers things that they can easily incorporate into their own solutions to add vibrancy, appeal, and ultimately better user experiences.

I have started off with some varied collections such as avatars, placeholders, icons and gradients.

my goal is to continue to build on elementals feature set and make this a useful tool in every developers toolkit.

Daniel

Today we're going to look at a design pattern I've recently been using to accommodate a client request.

The request is to be able to view and edit a parent, all related children, and all related grandchildren via a single "flattened" interface.

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FileMaker Pro provides a more than capable UI surface in order to design great looking user interfaces. In fact, it's the speed with which you can create that user interface which makes FileMaker Pro so appealing. The great thing about recent releases has been the flexibility of the newer layout objects.

When you combine the utility of sliders, tab panels, popovers and layout mode's various layout parts, you can further extend what you can do within FileMaker by quite a bit.

This video presents the top five tips and tricks you can accomplish with offscreen options possible with both native layout widgets and layout parts. If you're looking to increase what you know about how you can make creative combinations within FileMaker's presentation layer, then look no further!

A colleague recently posed this challenge: is it possible to show two columns in a portal, such that the first row displays records 1 and 2, the second row displays records 3 and 4, etc.?

With FileMaker, the answer is usually “Yes!”

Breadcrumb menus are great.

They tell the user a lot about where they are within a solutions hierarchy. 

They also provide a really quick and easy way to navigate up/down that hierarchy if needed.

In the FileMaker world, people have been making breadcrumb menus in various forms for a while, the most common implementation is that of a repeating fields, button bars, or in the case of vertical menus, a portal.

And while all of these methods are workable, they tend to have limitations when it comes to 2 aspects - the visual quality of the menu, and the ability to customise and extend the menu.

So what do we mean by these? 

We’ll start off by giving an example of a breadcrumb menu built using a button bar, discuss some of its limitations, and then present our alternative implementation using a tab control object.

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This article is an all you need UI resources for your next project, you will find tools and resources for colors, typography, inspirations, stock photos & videos, blogs, freebies & more tools that will really help you a lot in your coming projects and will save you a lot of time and effort.

Smartphones have invaded almost every activity of our lives. Different applications assist us and make the life easier.

A designer’s job is to create the user interface meeting users’ needs and making the experience pleasant and satisfying.

To build effective UI, designers need to dive deep into the peculiarities of mobile applications, learn their constituents and functionality.

Nowadays it’s difficult to distinguish a standard set of necessary screens for any application because mobile industry is evolving fast and so do the apps.

Our article presents the most common and popular types of mobile screens and shows the design features they require.

... if you’re looking for a more flexible and visually engaging alternative to FileMaker Tab Panels, this combination of a slide-panel control and a button bar just might be your "Expert Panel."

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Design Guidelines - The way products are built.