> A sexy app, might sell you a system, but it tell basically nothing about the usability.
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>Yeah, but it makes the sale. ;-)
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>What you say is demonstrably true in some important cases: you don't find cutsie GUI when you visit Google. ;-) But in this case I'd say that V8 is *much* easier to get to grips with when you load the form. And since most people can't manage more than 13 discrete items in their short-term memory anyway, a better-presented smaller list may be more "human" than a dense grid. But IMHO it would be a mistake to present that as a NET vs VFP issue.

The link only shows to screenshorts, so, its difficult to tell. Indeed the VFP vs .NET issue really is irrelvant. VFP can just as well create an effective GUI, maybe less sexy, but certainly with the same effectiveness.

>Of course if you're talking about a web app then it's not relevant. You can write a graphically identical browser app using PHP or VB.NET and if you use css properly you can let users skin to suit themselves. But that's 2009 thinking: some here would say that Silverlight is the only way to go in 2010. ;-)

Well for one project we're doing now, we went the javascript, jquery, jason way with some (I forgot the name) library with fancy controls on it. It really looks beatifull and that is certainly a selling point. But it will fall flat on its face when it does not deliver in usability.

As I said before, the GUI might be depended on the user. If the user is a first time user of the system. The Gui needs to be clean an not too overwhelming. If you're targetting professional users who want the complex information and functionality at the fingertips, the GUI needs to be different.

>Here's an alternative example of 2010 thinking: http://five.posterous.com/trellis-desk-20-preview-screencast . I'll bet you can't tell by looking what it is written in or what database it's using ;-) but it's freeware, and written by a student working on it part-time. People who are accustomed to earning lots of $$$ by writing the coolest UI may want to think about that.

I viewed it... No idea what its written in, but its GUI is quite nice.

Walter,