Looking for guidance or paid support with HISE GUI design

[lplr]

Hi everyone,

I run a fast growing sample and audio company. I have just built a working bare bones vocal plugin in HISE with a simple keyboard and a single knob (with the help of David Healey's bootcamp). It loads correctly, works as expected and now I am ready to move into the design stage.

I am looking for help with creating a clean and minimal GUI. Something modern and premium. The style I love is similar to the interfaces you see on https://uimother.com/

I am open to any of the following.

• A direct resource or guide that explains how to move from a working HISE prototype to a fully designed interface
• Someone who can consult me on the right workflow and steps
• Or paid help from a designer or developer who can assist with the GUI and connect it properly inside HISE

Even if I bought a template I would not know where to start with placing it into the plugin. So any pointers, tutorials or offers to work together would be appreciated.

Thank you to anyone who can guide me in the right direction.

[d.healey]

@lplr said in Looking for guidance or paid support with HISE GUI design:

I would not know where to start with placing it into the plugin. So any pointers, tutorials

Did you get to the GUI construction part of the bootcamp? For the effect plugin I use prerendered images.

[lplr]

@d-healey Hey David, I saw that part but was really only following the Instrument plugin tutorials - i'll give it a look! Thank you

[ILIAM]

@lplr
UiMother, Audio-Ui, Vst-Design and other Websites can help you to get the Knobs Sliders and anything you want.

[dannytaurus]

@lplr I just started using Figma to design the UI for my next plugins. It's mainly vector but you can drop images in there too.

It'll work fine with any of the assets from the aforementioned UI design services.

The main advantage for me is speed of iterations. You can easily nest and group things, and use constraints to keep things evenly spaced and shrink/grow as you modify your layout. You can't do this very easily in the HISE Interface Designer.

Once you're happy with the design, you can take the UI elements' position and sizes straight into HISE scripts that create the UI.

I know it's an extra piece of software to learn, but the flexibility of this way of designing is a winner for me. It keeps a nice separation between functional and visual design.

Additional bonus is I can share the progress of the visual design with someone else (stakeholder, collaborator, etc) without having to either share the HISE project or having to continually take new screenshots of the UI in HISE to email/message to them.

If you have a team it's even better. The UI designer can work on the visual design in parallel with the plugin/DSP developer, and as long as they have a central interface document - showing what parameters and displays the plugin exposes in the UI along with ranges, units, etc. - then combining them near the end of development should be cake.