Crestron and AMX customers rejoice! Today we’re releasing our Adaptation design for both the VTPro-e and TPDesigner4 platforms. This is a big deal! Why? Because, this is the first Guifx designed release for Crestron and AMX in a long time – and for good reason. We’ve spent a truckload of time over the past several months putting together the most comprehensive collection of page layouts and user experience functions for use on simple to complex Crestron and AMX systems.

This first thing you’ll notice about the new Adaptation releases is the level of thought put into the way a user navigates their touch-panel system. Global room navigation and “quick keys” allow instant access to functions like Ambience (lighting, climate, and environment), Security (cameras, and alarm monitoring), and Whole House for the control of house-wide functions. Adaptation, works perfectly in single-zone room applications and really shines when handling highly complex multi-zone systems.

Everything in Adaptation is customizable, if you don’t like the look or location of something, change it! Our convenient clip-board pages give you copy-paste access to all the graphics used in the composition of this template, so you can adjust with the tools the pros use. How did you live without this stuff?

As far as pages included in the templates, all the major controls are included (View them for Crestron and AMX). Here’s the list: Ambience (Environment), Cable-Satellite TV, CD/DVD, Climate, Curtains & Blinds, DVR, HD Radio, iPod, Keyboard, Lighting & Fans, Movie Server, Music Server, Presentation, Radio Tuner, Satellite Radio, Security General, Security Alarm, Security Cameras (Monitoring), Sources, Startup Home, Teleconferencing, TiVo, Video Conferencing, Whole House. Both Crestron and AMX have convenient pop-up pages for room/zone selection. Crestron customers alone have pop-ups for Microsoft Windows application support.

Head on over to the store and check out the new Adaptation releases as well as all the other Creston and AMX templates! We put a lot of work into these products and we cant wait to see what you think. Drop us a little feedback in the comments. G’day!

Guifx design partner, T&T Communications, was awarded first place in the Creative GUI Award at the Crestron Integration Awards 2008.

T&T received the Creative GUI accolade from Crestron in recognition of their graphic design work in creating a touchpanel template which is designed specifically for children.

The template, Kidz, was designed to fill a gap in the market for a touchpanel interface which would appeal to younger children and be as simple as possible to use, particularly in a bedroom or playroom environment.

Mike Benton, designer of the Kidz template said; ‘We are very pleased to have received this prestigious award. It recognizes our efforts at T&T to create unique and engaging interface designs that not only look great but provide the basis for functional and intuitive control.’

Kidz is currently available as a template for the Crestron platform in 320×240 and 640×480 resolutions.

What’s that you say? A Guifx template for a hardware platform that’s not even out yet? Yes! As an official RTI integration partner, we were able to work with RTI and their beta software to prepare a template in advance. We’re happy to announce that our popular Adaptation template is now available for the soon-to-be-shipping RTI T3-V touch-panel remote.

A quote from our design department about the T3-V – “That is one hi-res little panel.” We’ve all been pretty pumped about the T3-V since we got a chance to caress one back at EHX 2008. We’ve had a ton of requests for Adaptation on the T3-V, and today we deliver.

Adaptation for the T3-V takes full advantage of the brilliant high-resolution display. These are the pages that are included – Sources, DVR, TiVo, Lighting, Climate, Satellite Radio, Disc, Media Center, and Tuner. All the necessary Favorites and Keypad pages are also available for the aforementioned list of control pages.

So there you have it. You ask and we deliver. Let us know in the comments what else you’d like to see made available for the T3-V.

Guifx, designers of high-definition, user-friendly, graphical user interfaces, today announced they have been commissioned by Xantech to provide professionally designed graphics for two touch panels: the SmartPad LCD 3.9g and 6.4g version. The graphics are compatible with Xantech’s Universal Dragon Design software used for panel customization.

For both the 3.9g and 6.4g hardware, Guifx has created a stylish, modern collection of buttons, source icons, and backgrounds. The package is available in blue, tan, and black themes. Xantech will push this Guifx graphic update package to their software users via an automatic update tool.

“The past year has been an exciting one for Guifx, and the new relationship with Xantech adds to the momentum that’s been building for months,” says Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx. “We’re happy to have the opportunity to bring our graphics to such a major player in the touch panel industry. With every new commission of a custom graphic set, our designers have an opportunity to push the limits of a manufacturer’s hardware. We feel like we’ve accomplished that here.”

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes here at Guifx. So, we decided to create an outlet for all of our employees to share anything interesting with you that they might be working on (be it graphics, code, or just ideas), no matter how rough or unfinished.

So, welcome to the “inside” of Guifx. Please, don’t mind the mess.

Guifx, today announced a new license agreement with Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI). Guifx will now be providing a customized version of their touch-panel remote template, “Curacao,” for RTI’s soon to be released T3-V remote. The new template is designed for Integration Designer Software with easy editing in mind.

Additionally, RTI has licensed Guifx’s new Nexgen Icon Set to integrate gaming system icons into their touch-panel design software. This new agreement brings an incredible value to RTI integrators. Both the Nexgen and Aero Icon Sets will now be available to RTI’s user base as a free download from the Guifx website.

“The relationship with RTI has been beneficial for both sides,” says Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx. “Since our last licensing agreement we’ve distributed our products to a huge number of RTI users, and the graphics have been well received by both the touch-panel designers and their customers. If this new agreement shows anything, its that RTI is fully committed to bringing the best graphics to their integrator base.”

Guifx, designers of high-definition, user-friendly, graphical user interfaces, today announced immediate availability of products for Vantage/Legrand, manufacturers of intelligent, touch panel control systems for luxury residential electronic systems. Guifx’s Graphic Set and Template products are available for select Vantage/Legrand hardware today, with the entire line of full color touch panels soon to follow.

Vantage dealers can edit Guifx templates for their projects in the InFusionTM Design Center. Downloads will install directly into the program and appear as themes within the drop down menu in the Touch Panel Designer program. The first two styles available are called Meta and Adaptation, with additional templates to follow. They can be downloaded individually for manual build-up, or dealers can purchase the complete package of prebuilt, professionally laid out designs.

“The partnership with Guifx will take our touch panel designs to the next level,” says Andrew Wale, Marketing Vice President for Vantage/Legrand. “These templates not only cut down on programming time to increase productivity, but also bring a new level of usability to our clients.”
Guifx is the largest provider of professionally designed touch panel graphics in the world, and launched the first commercially available touch panel template in 2002. They specialize in the design of the interactive and aesthetic qualities of the touch screens incorporated into many whole house installations, streamlining and integrating complicated systems into one user friendly network. Guifx also offers templates compatible with Crestron, AMX, and RTI products.

Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx adds, “It is always exciting for us to bring our products to a new manufacturer. We’re happy to have the opportunity to expand our product line and make it accessible to all the professionals at Vantage/Legrand.”

Our newest Graphic Set titled “Hyperglass” will bring the future to your touchpanel. And the future is BRIGHT with the hi-impact, 3-dimensional style of Hyperglass. Partially transparent, fully amazing, Hyperglass looks great on top of almost any color or background image.

Hyperglass can be easily customized. Use the Photoshop version of Hyperglass to modify the buttons to any color you wish. We’ve included special adjustment layers to allow easy 1-step color adjustments for both the button and surrounding chrome area on the cursor independently. Check out the video on the Hyperglass product page to see exactly how it’s done.

For more information on Hyperglass or to purchase Hyperglass, go here. For more information on Guifx Graphic Sets, read this entry.

Note from the designer: This is my first entry in our blog. It’s a pretty big deal for me. I designed Hyperglass and I’m really proud of it. I sincerely hope you like it too. As a designer you really never know how your work will be received. Well, I put it out there for you and if you’re so inclined, I (and I’m sure quite a few others here at Guifx) would love to hear what you think. For better or worse.

Early this morning, we updated our store front to announce the forthcoming release of new graphic products for Vantage Controls.

On May 1st, we will begin to roll out new Template and Graphic Set products for use with Vantage Controls’ InFusion Design Center software. Vantage templates deliver the seamless user experience you’ve come to expect from Guifx. Visit the official announcement page for the full details and a small teaser.

Vantage and Guifx will be working closely together to bring the best possible user experience to our customers. Expect much more from both camps as we get closer to May 1st.

This morning, we released 3 products in an all new category called Background Sets. Guifx Background Sets, are a collection of hi-res images that were meticulously chosen to kick your ordinary looking touch-panel designs into a whole new dimension.

Our new Background Set products are named Celestial, Digital, and Natural. Check them all out – we’re confident you’ll be as excited as we are to bring them to you.

Each Background Set contains 8 images of impeccable quality. Our images are served in the highly compatible JPEG format, at a whopping 1550×1120 pixels. We went out of our way to bring you images with a wide variety of colors and truck-loads of contrast. Our goal with Background Sets is to make your touch-panels POP!

Like all other Guifx products, Background Set purchases are subject to free updates whenever the product is revised. So what are you waiting for? Check them out now.

Have an idea for a background set you’d like to see? Drop us a line in the comments and let your voice ring out!