## Creating New UI Designs

When you create a new project, you have the option to preconfigure it for use with the UI Designer by selecting a UI Designer enabled template. Selecting any template whose name ends in “with UI Designer” produces a project that is properly configured to accept UI designs.

If your project contains a file named “application.uidesign” ( Figure 1) it is UI Designer enabled.

Figure 1 - The "application.uidesign" file displayed in the Project Explorer view

NOTE Projects created via the New Project wizard with a UI Designer enabled template will contain two "*.uidesign" files: the "application.uidesign" file and the UI design for the initial view that you specified in the wizard.

The New UI Designer wizard guides you through the steps needed to add a new UI design to your project. The UI Design wizard automatically determines if the project is already UI Designer enabled or not. If a project is not UI Designer enabled, it will seek additional information during execution and upon completion add the .uidesign and application.uidesign files to the project and generate code.

Select from the following tasks for detailed instructions on either of the New UI Designer wizard variants, or for instructions on copying an existing UI design into your UI Designer enabled project.

##### Related concepts

- UI Designs

##### Related tasks

- Creating New UI Designs
- Adding a UI Design into a Project

##### Related references

- UI Design Wizard