Developer Tips : Focus on feature and content, not the appearance

By -


I’ve been trying to become a UI designer. I want to develop a well-designed, really good looking system management app, and then I can sell it somewhere on the software marketplace and hope It can make me some revenue from it.

So I started searching on what is the best UI library that I will use to develop the project. UI design, library or framework that have the best look and feel for users so the user won’t feel tired or bored while using the app.

After analysing many libraries, I realize that even the best design, which in my opinion is Material design, in the end users will feel bored and feel that there’s nothing special with the design. Because appearance is kind of only work as a first impression, after a while using the app, the user won’t care about looks anymore, it is the content or feature that they will care about.

Looks are the first impression whether a customer will decide to choose our product or find another product that is better than ours, so looks are also very important too. Satisfaction of just a few glance looks of the app, the experiences they get are a crucial factor for customers to choose our product.

And even for me as the developer, developing an app that looks unique with a fresh UI is much more fun and satisfying than working on a regular app that has a boring look. Usually we will feel motivated to work on an app that has better look for a long time and not feel bored.

So far I have been using and only familiar with Bootstrap. I’ve used react material-ui but still have very little experience on it, for example just basic things like on how to make material ui being responsive on mobile clients, maybe in the recent version react material it is automatically responsive, i don’t know but i hope.

Like i stated before that material design has the best looks and i only knew Bootstrap, which is not based on material design. To cope with this I will use Mdbootstrap which is still Bootstrap but with material design looks. So i don’t need to learn React material-ui but still have material design looks.

Mdbootstrap works great but still it doesn’t have some components that I need, so it’s very painful to create one custom component by ourselves. Styling and designing a ui by itself can take forever, it’s not the best practice for a developer to focus on styling, let’s just outsource or hire specialists that have better experiences in styling. We must rather spend 95% of our time focusing on developing more features to our app, and focus on app logic not the interfaces.

After comparing many UI libraries, I have concluded that in the end looks are important but it shouldn't be our priority, the priority is our app content. All of these UI libraries slightly look the same, they just put different colors, borders and shadows. Again, the most important thing to our app is the features or the contents, information, menus, buttons, etc. And how is your app gonna solve as many problems as it can be.
I am an experiences web developer, have a good problem-solving and deep understanding of software development principles. With comprehensive skill set in Java, PHP, Python, C and JavaScript. Able to do database thing like MySQL and Oracle. Along with expertise in frameworks like Spring, React, and Firebase. Have a solid understanding of software development methodologies, like Agile and Scrum. I applies best practices to ensure the development process is efficient and of the highest quality output.

Popular posts from this blog

ERROR 1348 Column Password Is Not Updatable When Updating MySQL Root Password

By -
Image
MySQL and MariaDB password As already mentioned in the title of this blog, this error message sometimes occurred when we are trying to update our root password database, either MySQL or MariaDB, The error says: ERROR 1348 (HY000): Column 'Password' is not updatable This is because if we use this SQL command to update our database root password, and it turn out to be Restricted by MySQL to use update on mysql database. UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('1234') WHERE User='root'; The solutions for MySQL Error1348 So you can not update a user password using Update commands, to update the password, use ALTER commands instead. like the following. ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '1234'; And then you need to do the flush privileges to commit previous queries (that alter command above) into the system, simply do like this. flush privileges; So now you have your root with password 1234. Although it is recommended to
Read more

MIME Types - Complete List

By -
Image
MIME Types List Icons Mime types is important in software development, sometimes it is used as system security to verify whether a file contents match with the extensions. Some attacker can just name any file to pass extensions checking, but inside of the file is actually a harmful contents, can be use to read our system, stealing our data even worse using our resource for their benefit. Here's complete list of mime types, pair with the extensions of file. 123 application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3 ez application/andrew-inset aw application/applixware atom application/atom+xml atomcat application/atomcat+xml atomsvc application/atomsvc+xml bdoc application/bdoc ccxml application/ccxml+xml cdmia application/cdmi-capability cdmic application/cdmi-container cdmid application/cdmi-domain cdmio application/cdmi-object cdmiq application/cdmi-queue cu application
Read more

Spring Kafka - how to use ReplyingKafkaTemplate send and reply synchronously

By -
Image
Microservice Spring with Apache Kafka Kafka is an asynchronous messaging queuing system, but when you have a case in your project that you need to have the result immediately from another service you can do that quite easily. Kafka from the client side produces a message to the server side, then waiting for the server to return back the message exactly what the client wants. It’s identified in the kafka header request named KafkaHeaders.CORRELATION_ID and a topic where the server should send. If the server side produces the same correlation id to the same topic in the request, then the client side will catch that message as its reply. Although you can work with kafka from a different framework and language other than Java and Spring. Here’s in this example i just specifically giving the example of sending and replying kafka messages using Spring Boot. The Project Overview The client-project will send a string message to the server-project over kafka, then the server-project wil
Read more

How To Create Spring Boot Project Using Netbeans

By -
Image
Spring Boot is program that you can use to develops Spring Framework easier, without the need of using so many hard to handle configuration. This tutorial, we are gonna create Spring Boot Application by using Netbeans IDE. You can of course create Spring Boot Appilcation on Netbeans, but it will be easier if just using plugin for Spring development in Netbeans, 1. Open Netbeans, click tools menu and click plugin. After plugin window opened, click tab Available Plugins and find the "Nb SpringBoot" plugin then install and activate the plugin. 2. After restarting the Netbeans IDE. Now you gonna be able to create a new project with Spring boot application. File > New Project > Under categories, choose Maven > then choose  Spring Boot Basic. Now you can start the development of spring boot application using your Netbeans IDE. Open pom.xml to add spring boot dependencies you want.
Read more

How To Connect SSH Using PEM Certificate On Windows

By -
Image
Usually you will need a pair of SSH username and password to connect to a remote server. But there's also another way to connect to the server via SSH but without password, just using a dot pem (example.pem) file. Here's how we usually do on Windows 1. Let’s SSH login using pem to confirm if it’s throwing error or the pem is fine, if error then we need to move to step 2 to fix it: ssh adam@10.0.0.123  -i server-cert.pem And here's the usual error that will throw if your pem file is not ready for SSH login. You need to follow the next step to make your pem certificate ready to login to your server via SSH. 2. Open Windows Explorer, then right-click on the pem file, then select "Properties". Navigate to the "Security" tab, and click "Advanced" 3. Disable inheritance 4. Delete all permissions, so it doesn’t have any permission 5. Now add you as the only only owner. By click button Add and then Select a principal, then Advanced. 6. On the showing p
Read more