A short intro of pip_tkinter¶
The pip GUI in intended to provide a simple and minimalistic GUI application for installing and managing Python packages. This application is specifically targeted towards people using Python, but not familiar with command line in linux, Mac OS or Windows OS.
In order to make the design of pip GUI consistent, following a set of design philosophies is a good practice.
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Before going through the design philosophies, if you are not familiar with process of designing a GUI application, you can refer to some excellent UI design resources available :
- Don’t design like a Programmer series : [Part1],`[Part2] <http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2011/06/don%E2%80%99t-design-like-a-programmer-part-2>`_,`[Part3] <http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2011/11/don%E2%80%99t-design-like-a-programmer-part-3>`_
This series of posts describes UI design concisely with a lot of summarized points about UI design.
- User Interface Design for Programmers ( by Joel Spolsky)
This book contains one of the excellent ideas of UI design explained with very simple and practical examples.
- Designing Interfaces (by Jenifer Tidwell)
It explains UI design in technical depth and explains some concepts like affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance and use of color. In addition to it, use case of almost all UI elements like selector, pagination, cancellability, button groups, geometry managers etc. are thoroughly explained.
Most importantly almost all chapters are followed by a Patterns section which includes all requirements to be achieved by a good software. I think this is one of the best resources to learn UI design in a technical manner. This book explains almost everything from organizing the content, navigation, organizing a page, using different UI elements to fulfill tasks, handling “verbs” of a interface ( i.e how to present actions and commands), discussing cognitive effects of data representation ( information graphics ) and finally tells how to use graphic design patterns to improve aesthetics and look & feel of UI.
- A collection of many UI design resources
https://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/06/30/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-1-resources/
- UX Design Concepts