How can I make my application look like JDiskReport?
If you’d like to quickly improve your application’s appearance, and usability, I recommend to check my Swing short course Metamorphosis, see www.jgoodies.com/freeware/metamorphosis/. And you may consider to use the JGoodies Looks and Swing Suite. If you need an introduction or reference about do’s and don’ts in GUI design, read Jeff Johnson’s GUI Bloopers. If you are busy and can’t find the time to read 500 pages, just look at the book’s contents and check whether you have an idea what all the topics are about. In this case, I guess, a medium skilled GUI designer will read about 50 pages. A thin book and recommended reading is Designing Visual Interfaces by Mullet & Sano. If you read 100 pages of this book, you will learn the most valuable basics of user interface design, and more generally, design. It is useful for the daily work of every GUI developer.
