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This article is focused on building a more effective webpage, but the principles found within apply to FileMaker design, as well. Knowing how user eye tracking occurs allows you to build a more effective help page and a more visually pleasant experience for the end user: The logo should be placed at the top […]
One of the most powerful FileMaker features is also a major weakness: the easy accessibility to edit records is both a curse and a blessing. Most databases deliver the results of a query as a table, and the data is not usually directly modifiable. The user (and the developer, by extension) must make changes […]
UKFileMaker’s fifth in the series of six webinars on the subject of learning FileMaker. This video is devoted to design building a better user interface on iOS devices. Published on Dec 5, 2014 Join us for the fifth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced […]
Matt Petrowsky shows a couple of intriguing tricks, including using a list field as a form for entering data. He uses a unique feature found in FileMaker that is not often used: Repeating Fields. FileMaker 6 and earlier, FileMaker supported only one table per database file, and repeating fields were an easy way to simulate things like invoices […]
Alexis Allen picks out seven design mistakes most of make and gives us the reasons why we should be more careful. My failings have included 1 and 2, not so much the others. Bad alignment and spelling errors I find particularly egregious. Which have you broken? We’ve probably all done these at one time or other. […]
The tenets of this article apply to FileMaker solutions as well as more traditional apps. The problem is that new, larger phones are too large for our hands (I have one solution that helps, by the way): As smartphones continue to get larger but our hands don’t, what kinds of design solutions can ensure mobile interactions remain comfortable, quick, […]
ALEXIS ALLEN LINKED TO THIS ARTICLE in her last post on design, and I thought it good enough to warrant it’s own post.. After going over the basics of web page layouts, Jarel Remick dives right into the golden triangle Math is beautiful. Does that sound a little strange? I sure thought so when I […]
BOB KELLEY of Scarpetta Group takes on object visibility by combining it with the Get(WindowMode) function from FileMaker’s built in functions: This week we want to review Get(WindowMode) that was introduced in FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier. As you know it returns 0 for Browse Mode, 1 for Find Mode, 2 for Preview Mode, 3 […]
DOWNLOAD THIS FREE EBOOK on FileMaker Pro Themes. Written and published by Michael Rocharde, this free book is a handy guide to FileMaker theme and includes solutions for many of the gotchas you’ll run across from time to time: This free eBook on FileMaker Pro Themes by Michael Rocharde is a simple visual reference guide […]
ALEXIS ALLEN of Designing FileMaker shares more design secrets from Devcon 2014: If you haven’t started using themes and styles yet in your FileMaker development, you should! This article consolidates information from Andrew Paulsen, Adam Ward, and Bob Shockey, presented in sessions at the 2014 FileMaker Developer’s Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The tricks and pointers […]
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THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEBSITES. While not directly about FileMaker, many of the concepts in this piece apply to general design principles for any computer base program: Charles Eames said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” A website is a composite of details—and its content is communicated through […]
MORE OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKING, this time by Joe Scarpetta of the Scarpetta Group: Field Boxes everywhere, ugh. As long as I can remember databases have had labels and field boxes, and that goes back to the days of Claris Works, FileMaker 2.1. and others as well, at least when the GUI started to take over. […]