Redesign the UI and UX

[rahmanshaber]

Hi. I am a student of mechanical engineering and to tell the truth i am using the Fusion 360 and Eagle for 1 year. It is in student license.
I tried the free-CAD sometimes but the learning curve it very hard i think. I saw 2-3 videos to learn using Fusion 360.
I am a UX and UI designer as my hobbies. And I think i can improve the UX and UI to be more friendly and easy for the new learner.
I have experience designing in QT designer and i am active in this project.
C Suit - [link][https://cubocore.gitlab.io/] - I design all the apps UI and UX.

I know i am a new comer and asking for a big changes. But take my word it will worth it.

I will only work in the Ui and UX and back end will be as it is.

If the maintainer is interested i can make this and shear a screenshot here.

[Kunda1]

Welcome to the forum, rahmanshaber

Yeah, feel free to send some screenshots of your ideas.

The issue here though is that we aren't for a lack of good ideas but instead missing programmers who can implement those ideas in to code. And by that I'm not implying that we don't have programmers here that lack expertise or know-how but instead the time and priority to do so.

[rahmanshaber]

Welcome to the forum, rahmanshaber

Yeah, feel free to send some screenshots of your ideas.

The issue here though is that we aren't for a lack of good ideas but instead missing programmers who can implement those ideas in to code. And by that I'm not implying that we don't have programmers here that lack expertise or know-how but instead the time and priority to do so.

I am not doing anything on code all will be qt designer means ui files. It will also be faster then code.

[Kunda1]

I am not doing anything on code all will be qt designer means ui files. It will also be faster then code.

Oh good, then you are familiar with Qt Designer. That's definitely useful for this endeavor.

[rahmanshaber]

[redesign][https://imgur.com/a/b2cl7f8]

all the tools related to skatcher or other will be in the combobox. user can keep some of the tools beside each combobox.

[DeepSOIC]

[redesign][https://imgur.com/a/b2cl7f8]

Please upload your pictures as attachments to posts, not to image hosting.

I've taken a look. Doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like you've just hidden a bunch of toolbars, and moved others. No .ui file editing can do this, yet it can all be easily done in FreeCAD GUI. You also have these weird combo boxes in place of some geometry creation buttons, they look very strange.

all the tools related to skatcher or other will be in the combobox.

Eemm.. isn't that the way FreeCAD's workbenches work now? I don't get it.

user can keep some of the tools beside each combobox.

Doable now, just create a global toolbar in Tools->Customize, and add a bunch of commands to it.

[rahmanshaber]

[redesign][https://imgur.com/a/b2cl7f8]

Please upload your pictures as attachments to posts, not to image hosting.

I've taken a look. Doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like you've just hidden a bunch of toolbars, and moved others. No .ui file editing can do this, yet it can all be easily done in FreeCAD GUI. You also have these weird combo boxes in place of some geometry creation buttons, they look very strange.

I am not seeing that attachment option.
As they are hidden the ui looks cleaner.
Those comobobox holds all the related tools And some of them will be shown beside by defult. User can customize that.
If it can be done then great. But i am talking about the default layout/UI that FreeCAD ships.

all the tools related to skatcher or other will be in the combobox.

Eemm.. isn't that the way FreeCAD's workbenches work now? I don't get it.

All the tools are now shown by default. It clutters the UI.

user can keep some of the tools beside each combobox.

Doable now, just create a global toolbar in Tools->Customize, and add a bunch of commands to it.

I am saying this aging i know you can modify the Blender to look lake a media player. But it is not a Media player. I am not talking about user can make it, I want the default layout looks friendly and it gives the user a welcome to use it. Not read a long book hoe to use it.

Also i forgot to add now all the tools are shown if you can not use them or not. In my UI/UX redo it will hide all the tools if user in another task.

[DeepSOIC]

I want the default layout looks friendly

OK.

In my UI/UX redo it will hide all the tools if user in another task.

Not sure if I understand you correctly. I interpreted it as you propose to hide the buttons instead of graying them out. Not a great idea IMO, it hurts discoverability.

[rahmanshaber]

In my UI/UX redo it will hide all the tools if user in another task.

Not sure if I understand you correctly. I interpreted it as you propose to hide the buttons instead of graying them out. Not a great idea IMO, it hurts discoverability.
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No. I don't think it dose.
Graying out makes the user confused, think what should i do to enable them, where app can show what user can click to go to next step.

[usbhub]

Just so I'm sure I got it right:
Do you want to change to default layout (moving toolbars, etc.) or do you want a complete redesign, to example with tabs instead of the workbench combobox?