UI Design for Salon Management Web Application

So, this is the basis that we had to work with.  Overall, we worked to make the layout more contemporary, more fluid, and just easier to use.  Special attention was given to not change things for change sake.  That is, this application already had users, users who had a muscle memory for how everything worked.  Changing UI elements (especially their labeling and placement) around just willy-nilly can cause a disruption for users.  As such, we strived to keep things in the same place (and with the same name) as much as we can.  The final result was a re-skinned/re-imagined application interface that was still familiar enough for current users to still use without the jarring effect for obtrusive change.

As part of this project, we ended up developing several screens.  To make things easier for the development team (we were only brought in to do the UI design work), we spec’ed out all of the particulars of the layout, so that all of the design specifics could be easily accounted for: