Introduction In application development, projects require various depths of involvement. Some projects may need you to interconnect a bunch of trendy frameworks and open-source libraries, while other projects will require full-scale development in...
Material UI is a great tool for speeding up the development process of your react app. The library offers out-of-the-box React UI components with built-in properties that greatly simplify the implementation of the styling and interaction requirements...
window.onload = function() {var aCodes = document.getElementsByTagName('pre');for (var i=0; i Creating a high-quality user interface that can run on embedded systems is a challenging task, and that’s doubly (or perhaps triply) true if it&rsqu...
Prologue In May 2019, at what would become the last NI Week ever, I led a session called “Learning to Love Text Again With Measurement Studio.” It was scheduled for 8:30 AM on the last day of the conference, so I was surprised that so ...
As a UX/UI Designer, there are so many tips and tricks I wish I knew from the start. Several quick little “quality of life things” that I know now would have sped up my workflow and improved my designs. These things often come from experi...
Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Soon after its creation, it was acquired by Google in 2005, and first released to the public in 2008. Android is ...
Interactivity, or input from a user, is expected in almost every type of mobile or desktop application, website, or interface. Users enter personal information, change application settings, and navigate various menus while using an interface. As...
Why do we code PLCs, design HMIs, create complex SCADA networks? The short answer is - so that somebody can use them to get a job done. For an HMI to be useable, it must be readable. Readability isn't just a matter of word choice. Technical choic...
I recently developed an HMI using WinCC 7.4 for an automation project. Building it from the ground up afforded me the opportunity to deviate from WinCC’s default skeuomorphic controls and instead experiment with more modern, flatter UI ele...
It's back! When V13 SP1 was first released, one of the features I was most excited about was the ability to multiplex arrays of custom UDTs on a PLC using a simple index tag on an HMI. This feature allowed me to use a single faceplate or scree...