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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 and 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
  • Laying out your user interfaces
  • Discerning and setting resolution and aspect ratio

This book is not about the art of designing UI. It is a technical text that discusses the 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 designer after reading this chapter. I do hope that you get some basic understanding of layout ...

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