ISO FileMaker Magazine

When tackling the task of updating a UI/UX look and feel, it can quickly become overwhelming — especially if you have hundreds of layouts and countless individual styles, some in use and others deprecated.

While designing a new solution from scratch allows you to take advantage of modern best practices, many existing solutions have simply relied on the Default style and applied it across numerous layouts.

The goal of this video is to demonstrate how you can achieve an updated look without disrupting the existing one. If you recognize that style names are the key and plan for the migration, you can accomplish several objectives:

1. Eliminate the use of the Default style in your UI.
2. Remove or transition outdated styles that are no longer in use.
3. Most importantly, establish a consolidated theme where the Default style can serve as a single control point for making sweeping, solution-wide changes with minimal effort.

Taking the time to phase out the Default style and integrate an updated theme can also inspire the use of newer UX tools and techniques that have emerged in recent years.