Question

I am making a software that will support multiple features simultaneously. I know the logic, and I have developed the features to support.

I want my project to have a look similar to Metro GUI of Windows 8. It need not to be specifically Metro, but similar.

I know about all the layouts in standard Swing library. Currently I am using GroupLayout though. How should I proceed, any ideas? Because the UI seems dull and I don’t want to use 3rd party APIs either.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I personally would use GridBagLayout, simply because it would allow you to supply better weighted constraints to each “group”, but even that might not be entirely suitable.

I would also take a look for the Metro UX guidelines for more ideas

These might be helpful

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/windows/apps/hh465403.aspx#tile_design_philosophy
• http://blendinsider.com/technical/ux-guidelines-for-metro-style-app-development-2011-10-21/ (look for the section on tiles)