Developing an application for local auto repair maintenance shop. Designed a dashboard view of sorts as the opening screen and included a daily schedule calendar on the form. Since Access doesn't make dynamic form design easy, we built in a web page for this purpose and included it as a custom ActiveX control within the parent form. Worked out pretty well and while you can still tell it's not a native form, don't think most users would pay enough attention to notice.
One of the drawback of Access, is that it usually looks and acts like Access. There is only so much flexibility you have in the UI design which can be challenging at times. Curious what others are doing to develop more modern interface designs that have a bit less Access-based look and feel. And of course any feedback or suggestions are welcome.