Looking for Best Book for FMX UI Design

[JIMSMITH 0]

Can somebody provide information on the best book(s) to use for FMX UI Design?

[corneliusdavid 221]

Probably this one as it's the only one (I know of) that is focused on FireMonkey: Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey.

[Patrick PREMARTIN 89]

Hi

This one can be a good choice too : it's a "how to create FMX programs" with simple sample projects.

https://delphi-books.com/en/Delphi-Programming-Projects.html

[Lajos Juhász 302]

UI design is not bound to the component set you are using or even the programming language. You should follow the OS guidelines.

[TigerLilly 16]

No need to buy a book.  Google for "principles of modern ui ux design" and there is a bunch of info. Additionally there are how-tos and guidelines from both Microsoft and Apple publically available.

[Sherlock 666]

53 minutes ago, TigerLilly said:

No need to buy a book.  Google for "principles of modern ui ux design" and there is a bunch of info. Additionally there are how-tos and guidelines from both Microsoft and Apple publically available.

This is the best tip yet, because reinventing UI/UX is not something that should be done by just anyone. The other books mentioned should be considered a more fleshed out version of the RAD-Studio help files and not a guide on how to design a user interface.

[Patrick PREMARTIN 89]

If videos are in the game, a lot of things are available on Embarcadero's YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@EmbarcaderoTech/playlists

 

Look at (the old) "modernize with Windows 10" playlist : 

 

Or the "Desktop First UX"

 

During the online conferences some speakers had shown a lot of things about FireMonkey and designing programs. One of them (Ray Konopka) is a specialist of this subject : https://www.youtube.com/@EmbarcaderoTech/search?query=konopka

 

And if you want to understand how FMX and the IDE work together, you also can be interested by my (in English) videos from last year conference : 

 

 

From GetIt you'll find some screen samples, it could be an help to design and understand how to stack components to reproduce the beautiful UI you (or your infographist) have in mind. 😉

 

[TigerLilly 16]

Additionally:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/appuistart/getting-started-developing-user-interfaces-portal

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/appuistart/-user-interface-principles

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/design/tips/