Poll: New Design Concept, Tell Us What You Think
Comments are highly encouraged. After voting, please share your thoughts with us.
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It looks absolutely gorgeous.
I bet nobody will vote no
We can see that it must have taken a lot of work to achieve that result.
Keep it going !
It’s beautifully designed but not to my taste. I personally dislike wood-effect graphics.
I’m sure there’s a market for it though.
I like the overall concept of the UI but dont care for the wood grain look and feel.
A great non-gaudy wood layout!!!
Very Steampunk! Like it a lot.
I like the design but not the wooden look
Looks great! Thanks for all of your work. You guys do a great job!
Gorgeous! Looks like it belongs in a Rolls Royce. The lighting detail at the top is so cool. and the perforated leather too.
It’s just lovely and all of the attention to detail is stunning…
Looks great on my laptop display, but how will it look on a medium-rez shallow-color touchpanel?
I love it. The first thing that popped in my head is the wood grain pattern fitting in perfectly on luxury yachts or vacation cabins or libraries/dens. And the wood grain here is subtle enough that it would work anywhere IMO.
The leather trim at the top and bottom are a very nice touch. The effects used on each element are awesome. Theres lots of depth and 3D chi happening here.
I love the hybrid ‘main menu’ / fixed navigation menu that you are using here and with Deana.
Has a detailed design but I would not use this heavy wooden look in my projects. Maybe for a boat ? I like the slider button graphic
fantastic. does this work for urc mx6000
I work in many homes where I use special effects with leather, steel, marble, and EVEN wood.
If the enduser likes it and it fits the interior of the home I would use it.
Everyone at GUIFX, keep up the great work.
Looks great, I personally like the wood, but judging from some of the comments perhaps you should consider color / texture mapping for the layout, similar to how some of your older panel layouts used to work.
I’ve never been a fan of wood-grain touchpanels, but this one looks pretty cool! I like the other layout elements of the panel. I would have to see this on a working panel to give my 100% approval, but from what I can tell you have created a great panel.
Its a good design but I am not a fan of wood effects on touch panels. Most clients prefer crisp modern designs.
You guys do amazing work! Keep it up.
Excellent. I personally don’t like the font that much, the serif one used in the headings. Maybe a little effect would be cool, like some fine shadows as in this GUIFX site navigation or engraving text… anyway just my idea, the design is great.
Peace!
Great flow and graphics, add ability to change button and backdrop colors to get rid of the wood and it would be much better:)
it looks awesome! i personally am not a huge fan of the wood grain, but i know of plenty of clients that would love this layout. great job again guys!
Like the flow of the layout but, the wood is not a highly sought after effect.
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Looks great. I would recommend a little more space for the Artist and Album names in the media playback example.
I would also like to see this as a GUIFX element offering.
Like most who have posted here, I feel the wood grain is cool, but seldom finds it’s way onto a final job site. I do like the overall layout.
Customization via a direct link to Koloroo would be amazing.
I use hard keys(6L/6x) and popup subpages for my volume/mute input/feedback, so it would be nice to have one template that reclaimed the volume sidebar for other uses.
I like the bottom Nav bar, but the offset shutdown button seems a little out of place for my taste(but then again I always make OFF a hard key as well…so as long as it could disappear that would be fine).
I like the distribute to rooms button for “party mode on the fly”.
Sliders look cool for lighting, but I usually wouldn’t give one to an end user to use. I’d do 4 room scene button presses plus dim up/dn and gauge feedback for level. Possibly percentage feedback as well. And also 4-8 global scenes as well (floors off, night, arrive, depart, etc).I guess the key is: make it customizable and don’t hard code in the sliders.
Keep up the great work….it really looks fantastic.
The graphics look great but here are the problems with using something like this:
- most of the touchpanels have modern looking bezels so you have a plastic or steel frame around a piece of wood. Just strikes me as odd in context.
- if you put this in a location where there is woodwork you may get the effect that it doesn’t match properly. Picture some lighter shades nearby and I think it will look awkward.
Yeah I like it a lot!!! Classy and Cool resulting in a gorgeous combination…
Keep up the great work!!!
I like the layout but I had to vote “No”. I do not like the “Wood-ish” background. If this was released today I would have to pass because of the Wood-ish looking background.
My 2 cents.
Need to make it skinnable…NO on wood grain. Like the layout though!
i agree with most posts: great UI, don’t care for any woodgrain designs. And although pricing on this is not yet established, it would also be great to keep this design set affordable.
Sleek and modern artwork is too common because they are straightforward (ok, easy).
For clients who want an integrated look with their wood-heavy interior, this is a beautiful option. Especially for those who would rather hook things up and program them than have to come up with this on our own.
This makes me feel like I’m in a classic movie!
I voted yes, ’cause it is beautiful. However, it isn’t the style I usually like : a bit “fat” and too “retro” for me, I prefer the modern style. But it’s still awesome.
Great could not be any better; it has class and quality. Keep up the good work.
I do like the look. As far as commands and buttons, it looks like all the bases are covered. I do like the layout. I assume there will be other designs as far as colors for this. That would be good, so it could basically be the same layout as far as buttons, but a different feel color or style wise.
Like many of the other commenters, I’m not crazy about the wood look, but I do appreciate the craftmanship of all your work. One suggestion I’d like to make is to somehow have the option of showing all the sources for a given room always showing so that the user doesn’t have to go through the extra step of going back to a ‘HOME” page to select a new source. Other than that, I’m loving the new looks.
YES, Task lite at the top, perf’d leather with the stitch detail, thats attention, I would need to see whats hard drawn for buttons and bars for flexibility, does look easy to nav thru, the woodgrain is definitely rich as well. This would go in a Bentley or Maserati, just what the customer would want. A comparison in their home and car. Keep it up and send some pricing out. I have a project with this as a perfect fit!
I do like the overall look, very well done and rich graphics. In general I don’t usually like wood based graphics, however I think the very tight wood grain and the fact that its just the back ground makes it look nice and gives it character without looking cheap.
I have seen one other example of a wood background that looked nice because it meshed well with the colors and environment that the TP was in.
The color choice for the buttons looks really good against the wood grain. I think that is usually one of the difficulties with wood grain is that not much looks good with it.
All that said, I’d have to see it on a panel to really decide.
Very Rolls Royce, but I also always use dedicated hard buttons for Volume so I don’t like to burn up screen real estate with those controls.
And eventually this all has to go with skinnable surfaces. But it’s come a long way since Smart Touch.
If you want a thousand or more of my dollars, give me every possible config of a particular look. What’s the deal with some not being for every size screen? Not interested yet.
Nice one, the details are amazing. It seems like there’s a lot of work behind this
P.S. While I was viewing it, I (instinctively) tried to push some buttons
Amazing, like everything you do boys!
Great creativity in organizing the functions and features of all the media options into only three pages. This would work no matter the background scheme.
Nice detail and layout, optional backgrounds and fonts would make it more style compatible.
It really looks gorgeous! Like Kelly said in her comment, it really looks like it came out of a Rolls Royce, and we all know how they mind every little detail. Speaking of the detail… there is something not quite right with the serif font that you have been using for the menus. It comes out a bit, inadequate and to sharp… (guess it’s due to the anti aliasing and the “no effect” on the font selection in PS…). Maybe using a “bold” version of the font?
Another thing that got me thinking for a sec are the icons you used on the third screen for the lightning environment. It simply doesn’t look like a light bulb that’s on/off on those buttons. Right now it looks that you had to sacrifice and compromise that icon for the sake of the button itself. Maybe using the same “bulb” icon that you got in the right bottom menu but with a more realistic effect would do the trick. Using different icons to describe the same function is a bit confusing to the less “computer literate” people, so I think this will avoid that to happen.
Anyway… I really like the effort that you guys put in to your designs and all the little bits and pieces that make it stand out and make people like us (users) go mellow in all the right places… Keep up the good work!
Brillant, awesome, gorgeous, amazing. I don’t know any decent competitor for you on the web.
very elegant!
Thank you all for your great feedback, it’s exactly what we needed.
We’ve taken all of the “wood grain” comments into consideration and I will be creating alternate non-wood backgrounds which will be included in the final product, along with the original wood effect.
Thanks again for your feedback!
Peace, Lance
Absolutely Outstanding Job!!!
Simple and Sexy…
Great job guys!! You are the best at creating amazing graphic layouts!!
Ian
Personally I love the wood look.
Andy
Overall, excellent design. Whether you are a fan of wood or not, the attention to detail is excellent. You have a very talented design crew. The only suggestion I would make is to make your positive button feedback more pronounced. At first glance, it is hard to tell what buttons are active and which are not (MUTE, PLAY, etc.).
Again, great job!
I like it very much. Level of details, warm and noble feeling of wood, placement of widgets. Maybe you could lower the density of wood grain a little bit.
Definitely ninja stuff, as your usual creations
Cheers, Marek
Unlike most of the other comments I think the wood is great. I guess I’m in the minority here, but I’ve used other wood grain layouts and they fit in a great majority of the homes I’ve been in. Most of the modern designs feel too cold, plastic, or cartoonish to me. Not something that fits in with my clients’ homes.
Nice work.
Great work and I like it. It might have a limited marketability though because of the wood grain. But overall, nice color coordination.
Hello
It looks really amazing and I like its wooden look design.This is something different from others.Thank you..
Great work guys, c’mon there are more touchscreens out there than Crestron!
I think on the “select an activity” screen, the icons are too close; there’s little space between them and to the left and right of their container, but an awkwardly excessive amount of space above and below them
Thank you for participating. We are going to produce Victoria and your comments are sure to make her better. Available immediately though are her elements, Victor. Enjoy
Your designs bespeak your herritage as graphic designers who don’t code. They are elegant but inefficient. I would not want a lighting template like yours. You slider is wonderfully tactile but i prefer a template that allows me to use the same set of load control sub-pages that I dynamically control. Even in a on/off GUI I’d rather populate the number and name dynamically. Fewer graphics means less upload times.
Your wares would benefit from a relationship with a coder. Otherwise they are pretty pictures but not much of a touch panel design.
The design is elegant. I hate your naming menu selections “activities.” There is nothing “active” in making menu selections. I’m sure I’m in a minority in this. Yet it suffers from the too typical design flaw of being too regular and too symetric. Buttons are all rectanglar and more or less all of equal size. Borders are also the same size. I prefer a design that situates round and rectaugular buttons on an irregular shaped border. I also prefer more colorful icons to the monochromatic files you are using.
It’s a pleasing template. But there is so much in its GUI navegation that I dislike. I don’t like the idea of distributing sources from the source control page. Once you are at the source conrol page you control the source. You distribute it from an other page. I’d rather have header and footers (top and bottom menus ) then your selection page. It is not unusual I’ll go from source selection t lighting and from lighting to HVAC before I go back to source control. This is better accomplished in a top/bottom menu GUI.
It’s very pretty but I don’t find it very functional. Do you use the designs you create? Or are they just products that go from computer to web site?