Yes - they modified the default design in Qt Designer - it's a commendable effort because it certainly looks better than the average wallet but it doesn't take a genius to essentially drag-and-drop and use CSS (it's all styled with CSS).
The long-term prospects for this coin are over - the short-term prospects are that the dev just unloaded about 100 BTC worth of premined SC today and will unload the rest of it before the week is over. This coin was dead the second it hit MintPal because everybody is here for the exact same reason: to sell as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, nobody has the ability to unload like the dev does. Like I mentioned earlier - go take a look at the Yellowcoin chart (max) on MintPal - SC will match up almost exactly with it. So if you want to know the best time to sell I urge you to use that chart as a guide. In fact, it's possible it's the same dev. This guy is making $100k/pop and moving on to the next sucker coin.
You are so extremely thoughtful / caring about the money of others... and of course you only wish the best for them... oh dear!
Okay - well I'm done here. Just remember that I tried to help you. Keep holding and see what happens. It's frustrating because it's so obvious and I really don't understand how these cons are continually executed. So many suckers. I hope you all learn from this in the end and stop allowing yourselves to be scammed. I'm sure I sound like an asshole right now but 2-3 weeks from now when you realize I was right and you're still holding on to a thread of hope and a heavy bag of "silkcoin" think of it like this: you learned a lesson for cheaper than it would have cost you to get a degree. No matter how much money you lose on Silkcoin, it will end up being a cheap lesson. Just make sure you learn from it - don't let the education go to waste and keep feeding these lazy con artists over and over. Education is the enemy of evil.
Just one thing...
Hating idiots since 1981
You should change this ... because nobody will believe your help. What a tragical figure you are!