title: Business Application UI Design
body: <p>Basically I'm going to go a bit broad here and ask a few questions to get a bit of a picture of how people are handling UI these days.</p>
  
  <p>Lately I've found it pretty easy to do some fancy things with UI design and with WPF specifically we're finding new ways to do layouts that are better looking and more functional for the user, but in contrast one of the business focused guys at our local .NET User Group wouldn't even think of using WPF until it had a datagrid that he could use to make Excel like input forms.</p>
  
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  <li><p>So basically, have you rethought the design of your business apps as you move to Web/WPF/Silverlight designs, because for us at least - in winforms we kept things fairly functional and uniform, or are you trying to keep that "known" UI?</p></li>
  <li><p>Would a dedicated design guy (for larger teams), or a dev with more design chops rank higher when looking at hiring these days? (Check out what a designer did for <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LearningWPFWithBabySmashManuallyManagingClickOnceAndSomeMoreDesignerGoodness.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Scott Hanselman's BabySmash</a> and <a href="http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2008/05/08/wpf-from-this-to-that-wow.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft's Prism demo</a>)</p></li>
  <li><p>Are there any design hints/tips/guidelines you use for your UI - especially for WPF?</p></li>
  <li><p>What sites would you recommend for design?</p></li>
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