Themes are custom graphical appearances for software applications.
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What are the negative and positive aspects of dark color scheme?
I am using Light-on-dark color scheme (dark background with light text) in my application.
My question is, what are the negative and positive aspects of this color scheme and why this color scheme ...
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How to differentiate icons for *client* from *server* IT services (mail, web, filesharing and so on)
I need to design a UI that includes widgets to control a server computer, and a client computer.
This means I'll be doing similar pairs of icons for mail (mail program vs mail server), web (browser ...
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Should I let my users chose between multiple themes?
I run a relatively successful website made with Twitter Bootstrap. I've heard from the users saying how they love the design and the responsiveness that my website has. Much of said responsiveness and ...
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How important is the ability to change the color theme on a desktop application?
At my company we create Windows desktop applications using Microsoft's .Net (WPF to be specific). The window or "chrome" is completely customized, meaning that we do not use the standard Windows ...
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Changing my site theme often
I'm planning on selling website templates. My first thoughts were the development of my actual site. After thinking about it for a while, what if, instead of my site having one common theme, what if ...
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When is themeing applicable in web application?
I have seen few applications with the ability to change themes, for example, in my case, a HRMS application (there are many such). But, people seldom use custom themes or care about them in such ...
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Do icons need to be consistent across different themes?
I have to do some themes for this mobile app I am designing, the problems is after I sent the first preview of the themes to the client he came back saying that he wants different icons for each ...
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Resources explaining how to approach UI theming
I'm looking for resources that best describe picking and using colors within a user interface. For example, elements that are good to color and elements that should have no or little color impact. I ...
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Better to Auto-change skins or allow selection?
I am designing a site with 3 basic skins. Each skin corresponds to a "team". Generally these teams face off about once a week or so in major tournaments, and one of the 3 teams will always win.
For ...
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Idea for providing unique Themes inside an E-commerce Platform [closed]
I have an e-commerce platform, that will launch very soon.
One of the things that differentiates this platform from the competition is the built in content editor, that builds on top of the 960 Grid ...
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What are some recommended web resources for theming and design of WPF controls? [closed]
I previously tried to ask about themeing resources for WPF in this previous question
However at the time UI stack didn't really exist, and the SO guys gave "how to learn" type answer.
I'm looking for ...
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Should I have my own internal theme or base it off of the users System theme?
I am creating an application for Windows Phone and on the platform, users are able to choose to have either a light or a dark theme for their phone.
Applications are usually expected to follow suit ...
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how to get the colors list of a website? [closed]
how to get the colors list of a website?
sometimes I see some beautiful website, they are colored view look,I want to anylize what colors is it used.then record color to photoshop for mysef later ...
