Golden ratio in GUI design

Posted by paulreiners on Thursday December 17, 2009 @04:44PM
from the self-post dept.

Does anyone else try to use the golden ratio in their GUI components? I've been doing this for awhile now and it does make them look better, I think.

    final double goldenRatio = 1.61803399;
    dialog.setSize(
        DIALOG_WIDTH,
        (int) Math.round(DIALOG_WIDTH / goldenRatio));

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Re:Golden ratio in GUI design by shaunxcode on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:51PM (#1002217)

I am not sure I understand - wouldn't you want to be working with the DIALOG_HEIGHT in relation to the DIALOG_WIDTH?

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Re:Golden ratio in GUI design by jpterry on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:28PM (#1004016)

He is. The first argument is the width, the second is the height. Therefore, the height is calculated based on the golden ratio applied to the width.

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