looking for examples on how to set/build Good looking GUI's

**umen** · 15th May 2010, 04:52

are there some tricks on the subject any thing that will give good looking gui
maybe like skype?
beyond the OT reference

**Lykurg** · 15th May 2010, 07:14

there are no tricks. It's all achievable with style sheets, own painting with QPainter and of course with a custom QStyle. For learning more I would go to qt-apps.org, search for a project that looks nice and then have a look on the source code to see, how they make it.

**wysota** · 15th May 2010, 10:10

There are many books about guidelines on creating good user interfaces. Every decent graphical environment has it. Apple published one for Aqua, Microsoft has one for Vista/7, KDE has one, GNOME probably has one too. It's worth at least taking a look at them (they are usually pubslished as freely available PDFs).

**SixDegrees** · 15th May 2010, 15:14

If you're really interested in good visual design - which is the core of GUI construction - nearly anything by Edward Tufte comes highly recommended. Although I don't entirely agree with parts of his design philosophy, his books are extremely thought provoking and will give you all the tools you need to understand, appreciate and design your own interfaces.