I'm very pleased to see the GUI topic mentioned here. For all of those who seek a UI advise, I have a tip. I have done a lot of pondering about GUIs since I be

I'm very pleased to see the GUI topic mentioned here. For all of those who seek a UI advise, I have a tip. I have done a lot of pondering about GUIs since I began programming. I ended up in mantaining a 12 year old project, with more than 400 individual forms (that's for a single client, we've got 4 more). Damn, I was lucky. The project really blew my mind! It crushed most of the assumptions which I made while reading articles or developing toy applications. And here's the thing: It uses most of the "bad practices", "anti-patterns", or however the internet calls today the "I was bitten once and didn't find the way out" thing, in it's codebase and still is ridiculously maintainable. With very much likelyhood it will survive another 12 years. Partly, because of the contract, but the point still holds. :) So, my bold advice: just ignore all the naysayers and make up your own mind. Event's are bad? It they solve a problem giving another one or two in exchange, there most probably is another solution fixing those two too. And while the problems never end, at one time you end up with a framework that covers 90% of needs, correctly. "Yeah, we can't notify the remote client about the update on the model, when it's in a form rollback phase and when it has at least one two-dimensionally time tracked attribute. It isn't possible, because it interferes with the data history stack. We should not have used events at the very beginning at all." Damn, that's a tough problem. Wait, what does your UI do !? At the project I'm working on it took a lot of work and at least one PhD thesis to get it where it is today. I can't give out all details, but if anyone's interested, there are few open sourced parts. But You will find plenty of good libraries already. I also made a simple JAVA Swing project on github using some of the gained knowledge. If anyone would find that interesting, just leave a comment. I hope such good UI articles come up more often in the HN feed. And please, do write as much technical details as possible.