The Visual Effects designer has a very intuitive interface.

The designer consists of two parts. The first part appears on the left side of the Visual Effects designer. It displays a list box of chart elements that support VisualEffects rendering and a preview pane that shows the current element's appearance.

The second part appears on the right side of the Visual Effects designer. The second part contains three tabs: Presets, Colors, and Parameters.

In addition to the Chart elements, Preview Pane, and tab pages there is also command buttons located at the bottom of the designer. The command buttons consist of an OK, Cancel, and Reset button. The OK button closes the Visual Effects designer and saves all of the changes. The Cancel button cancels the Visual Effects designer and cancels the changes made in the editing mode. The Reset button resets the value of the selected property.