STREAMLINE
Qt
Make Qt Design Studio designer-friendly.
While Qt Design Studio is a powerful tool, its reliance on coding limits its usability and adoption by designers.
As a designer, I want a WYSIWYG visual modeling tool that allows me to build and populate working UI containers like menus and panels without needing a developer’s help. State modeling is intuitive, but the surrounding binding and connection concepts require coding, which I want to avoid.
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Reinvent the Wheel
Designed for Designers, not Developers.
Qt’s legacy in UI development is both a strength and a limitation. Embracing a "less is more" minimalist approach, we aimed to reduce the number of UI library components while ensuring each covered ALL basic needs. Modeling workflows were redesigned to be more intuitive from a designer's perspective and truly WYSIWYG. In our UX streamlining project, we proposed four key UX improvements:
1) Refactor the six types of containers into ONE smart container, capable of nesting to create any UI panel or menu.
2) Design UI controls in the component library as "Wireframe" starting points, easily modified to evolve into custom Design System components.
3) Enable simple mock-data integration (e.g., .csv files) to connect with UI components and containers, populating the UI with realistic content.
4) Introduce a page-like view for focused state and transition modeling.