Napkin Look & Feel

The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin.

The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin. You can use it to make provisional work actually look provisional, or just for fun. It is released under a BSD-style license The idea is to try to develop a look and feel that can be used in Java applications that looks informal and provisional, yet be fully functional for development. Often when people see a GUI mock-up, or a complete GUI without full functionality, they assume that the code behind it is working. While this can be used to sleazy advantage, it can also convince people who ought to know better (like your managers) that you are already done when you have just barely begun, or when only parts are complete. No matter how much you speak to their rational side, the emotional response still says 'Done!'. Which after a while leads to a later question: 'That was done months ago! What are they doing? Playing Quake?' A good article on this is Joel on Software's “The Iceberg Secret, Revealed”.