Can I improve visually a GUI?

Hi, I'm working in a athmospheric matlab based program, who plots several ammounts of data, basically. It's GUI looks like this:

http://i41.tinypic.com/sdjwgp.jpg

And I'm looking for a visual upgrade, with a "modern" appearance and not as old or simple.

How can I improve it? There's an easy way to reach it?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can make your buttons the same sizes to give a more clean, organized appearance. I don't know if there's some order that the user is supposed to interact with the GUI, but if there is, I find it helps the user if you label things like "Step 1:do this", "Step 2: do that", etc., because your GUI can otherwise be a bewildering array of edit fields and buttons that the user doesn't know what to click on next. Some of your edit fields might be able to be turned into sliders/scrollbars if you'd rather have them.

[CarlosCEAM]

The program is designed to used by my own office crew, and internally is pretty understandable. I just want a good-looking appearance.

Answer 2

[ES]

This is the IDE's view. The GUI, when you run it, could be a little better. And decide whether you need all the components in the GUI, if you do need all of them, then rearrange so that all the individual components are legible. Also I have seen people use white colour back ground to the GUI to good effect. Anyway, the GUI will be rendered with OS defaults. Like the shape, texture of the buttons will be dependent on the OS. you can decide only the color of the components. Use good fonts. "Sans Fonts Vs Sans Serif Fonts" will be a good starting point. Do not use rescalable GUI option for your GUI since it has lot of text and buttons. That is all I know.