One of my daily background activities — is to try to create some kind of design system, that fits professional context. Core idea is to support advanced set of color palettes (including the red one for night vision support), multiple tiers of panels and controls on them. It is pretty ambitious task for a single person and spare time, but I slowly move in this direction.

This screenshot visualizes current work in progrss — I use dark palette as primary for my mockups and slowly expand other palettes

The Protraktor UI Kit description (right now it is just a draft) is located at kit.protraktor.design, and I also started two GitHub projects that will contain CSS files and Qt stylesheets (and some C++ classes) that support this design approach.

https://github.com/protraktor-design/web-kit/
https://github.com/protraktor-design/qss-kit

Found cool classic book — “Semiology of Graphics Diagrams, Networks, Maps” by Jacques Bertin, French cartographer and expert in visualisation of information. It was originally published in 1967, but is still a viable source on the theory of information design — if you miss the depth of analysis, foundations and motivation behind — it is definitely something worth to look at.

You can find some previews at Amazon

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