UI Design: A Lost Art?

	May 24, 2011
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User Interface Design: A Lost Art? The New Era of Automated Test

With a few easy techniques, you can create LabVIEW user interfaces (UIs) that enhance your application both cosmetically and functionally.

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Share: The automated test scales have tipped and it's time for a faster, smaller, more cost-effective solution than classic rack-and-stack options.

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Tech Tips

Webcast: NI and Tektronix Develop Industry's Fastest PXI Digitizers
Listen as NI and Tektronix outline the performance gains realized by working together to develop the industry’s highest performance PXI-based digitizers.
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NI Machine Condition Monitoring Solutions Are Everywhere
Check out this collection of over 35 machine condition monitoring case studies highlighting how NI products helped predict failures and better schedule maintenance to save these companies time and money.
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Best Practices for Using Multiple Network Interfaces With NI Products
This tutorial outlines basic Ethernet networking concepts, explains why incorporating multiple network interface cards (NICs) can cause problems, and provides best practices to follow when working with a multi-NIC system.
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Webcast: Top 10 Advanced Techniques for Data Postprocessing With NI DIAdem
Explore the top 10 advanced features in DIAdem that differentiate it from other data processing environments. This webcast is a must-watch for power users or for engineers with a lot of data to analyze and report.
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Community Highlights

Sweet App: OptoFidelity Teaches Robot to Play Angry Birds
OptoFidelity, a National Instruments Alliance Partner, has a programmable sensor tester platform that can automatically test and validate product response to two-finger gestures, like pinching, and it's also really good at playing Angry Birds.
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XBox Kinect and LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit Team Up
Download code and learn how to use an Xbox Kinect with the LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit to perform better obstacle avoidance.
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Podcast: Interview With the 2011 Code Madness Winner
Listen to this VI Shots podcast to learn the history of the NI coding challenges and to find out how the 2011 Code Madness winner, Peter Kovacs, is turning his entry into a spin-off product for the LabVIEW Tools Network.
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Example Code: Simulating a Cellular Automaton in LabVIEW
This example uses three VIs to simulate a cellular automaton. Why would you want to simulate a cellular automaton? The author's answer: because they're cool.
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What's New

Implementing FPGA-Based Feedback Control of a Single Atom With LabVIEW and NI FlexRIO
See how the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics used NI FlexRIO and the LabVIEW FPGA Module to implement feedback control for systems as small as a single atom interacting with single photons.
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NI Releases Annual Corporate Citizenship Report
The report focuses on how NI maintains its corporate culture, inspires and empowers engineers and scientists to improve the world, reduces its environmental footprint, and gives back to the global community.
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Webcast: Improving Lives With Safer Diagnostic Procedures
Listen as the president and CEO of Silicon Biosystems talks about how he uses NI products to develop and deploy a medical device used in oncology and noninvasive prenatal diagnosis.
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You can use this innovative add-on, created by SAPHIR, to implement Modbus over TCP in LabVIEW. It includes client and server functions complete with examples and a server template to get started.
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