Design:

Many touch panel designs goes with a design approach that is, less buttons are the best for a touch panel design. But, if your touch panel design has only four buttons on the main screen, why should the client pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to do four things ? pOp Retro provides the best user experience and most efficient design to operate a global system. pOp Retro is a custom design that provides more flexibility then a standard touch panel design. One of the design goals of pOp Retro was to create a design that would allow the client to control everything and give the client the ability to change the layout of the design.This touch panel design had to also be easy to use and create a great user experience. From the reviews with the client this objective was achieved!

Touch Panel Interface Design Features

• Screen size - The design is optimize to support different screen sizes.
• Photoshop 3-D masking effect.
• Extreme lighting control that has been simplified. Control any lights in the house and at any level in just a few seconds.
• To create a consistent look the theme elements and images are distributed throughout the individual buttons and pages.
• Animated 3-D Shelf.
• Multilayer user design functions.
• Flexibility - The touch panel design sections (pages) can be removed and added to support different systems and projects.
• Conformity – Unified controls of the touch panel design.
• Dynamic scrolling list - Their are 11 different list objects integrated into the design.
• Background images are reference from just a few images, so the design on different pages can quickly be modified.
• Transport controls are grouped by sections to provide a quick access to the most common used buttons.
• Enhanced touch panel video pages for panorama view of security cameras to improve user experience of the touch panel design.
• The status bar will list essential features of the system and the current configuration of the touch panel.
• Flexible Design Objects - The user can easily modified the touch panel design layout. ( see video demo for example )
• Access to all audio transport controls with in the touch panel house audio section. Over 500 audio controls organized to create a great user experience.
• Extra touch screen control area by layering pages and controlling page transitions with fly-out menu and drop-down menu navigation.
• The use of large (system power page) and small (main select page) source select images.
• Combined use of skeuomorphic and flat skeuomorphic objects to enhance user experience.

The Reviews 

• Looks really good, perfect!
• Looks much better with the changes, I like it!
• Great feedback on the list buttons...I've never seen that before.
• Controlling all of the lighting from the touch panel is extremely easy to use. We will be using the lighting controls on the touch panels more than the actual lighting keypads.