Business and financial projects up until now used to have Spartan, decidedly minimalistic user interfaces. This approach worked in the early days of text-based spreadsheets and black-and-white trading terminals. However, the latest trends in operating system and software require a better, more usable and more visually appealing user interface. Is your team of designers prepared for the challenge?
Designing clear text messages, wizards and intuitive dialogs and window layout is only one side of a coin. It is still easy to spoil a good GUI with improperly designed, rushed graphics, with alternatives being spending more on graphic design or moving the . There is another, less talked about alternative: using ready-made stock graphics to empower your trading product or service.
What's so good about stock images? Stock images are a great way to make your product stand out with , balanced design and strikingly good looks. Stock graphics are readily available, meaning that you see exactly what you get, and you get it right away without the long wait. Stock icons are sold as matching sets, ensuring color and stylistic integrity of your project. Finally, stock icons are a much less expensive alternative to making icons even in-house, let alone outsourcing them to a contractor.
Working specifically on making a usable tool for business-oriented customers, you need stock images designed with that in mind. While there are many generic sets of icons available, there are only a few designed for business developers. by are hand-crafted by software designers for the purpose of integration with business and trading software.
Business Toolbar Icons depict many objects, actions and symbols that are widely used in projects. Currencies such as and Yen, accounting terms such as Debit and Capital Gain, actions such as Forward, Down, Pick and Transfer, and human-related icons such as Staff, Employee and Customer are supplied among many other images.
Technically speaking, your purchase gets over 200 icons in all standard sizes, color depths and file formats. Semi-transparent True Color images for Windows XP and Vista operating systems with high resolution displays are complemented with 8-bit, 256-color images. Each picture comes in all resolutions of 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 dots, and is supplied in three different states: normal, disabled, and highlighted. All images are available in , Bitmap (BMP), GIF, and PNG file formats.
Business Toolbar Icons come with all the graphics you need to enhance a business or financial project, and represent a great value at only $99.95. Visit to see the icons and decide if you are ready for the savings going the stock way.
While you don't have to be an accountant to be a successful in business, having a good overview of your business finances is important for good decision making - particularly in difficult financial times. And thankfully for busy business owners, today's online accounting systems provide you with the up-to-date information you need to make informed decisions at all times.
Xero web-based accounting system has been specially designed to be as easy to use as a computer game, while also being powerful enough to prepare end of year financials. While the online accounting system offers lots of advantages in terms of time saving and ease of use, many business owners say that it's in the overview they get of their business that Xero's web-based accounting system really makes a difference.
Bill Farmer, CEO of Mako Networks says the shift to Xero's web-based accounting software has transformed his ability to plan.
"We have fantastic day-to-day access to the numbers with Xero, and this is a great thing for our business. For any small business, visibility of cash flow is key, and Xero gives me this instantly at any time."
Katie Lips, Director of Kisky NetMedia also reports her business is in stronger shape thanks to online accounting with Xero.
"Using Xero has made some aspects of our business black and white. You can see all the time which clients and projects are making you money and which aren't. This type of information is invaluable in helping to focus us and our efforts on an ongoing basis. Because Xero makes it easy to understand our business performance we can get better with little effort."
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