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Creating a powerful and easy to understand user experience is important whether your application has a rich client, a browser based interface, or even a CLI. UI is important whether your app runs on the desktop or on a mobile phone. This forum features discussions of user interface design and implementation.

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Swing Usability
(Posts: 148 | Archived: June 8, 2004)
In order to get developers to write Java applications, the UI toolkit has to be easy to learn and use, flexible and extensible, perform well, and be easy to deploy. And lets face it, Swing has its share of issues - its slow, hard to use for beginners, requires a lot of customization, and more. At the same time, Swing is a very powerful user interface package with great flexibility for almost limitless customization. There are a lot of reasons to use Java, but not without a sufficient UI toolkit. (This discussion is co-hosted by Joshua Marinacci and Jonathan Simon.)

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