Code rant: The official Microsoft GUI Guidelines

Thursday, January 19, 2006

The official Microsoft GUI Guidelines

I've been having a lot of heated discussions recently around Windows forms interfaces. Although I feel that I've got quite a good instictive grasp of GUI design I sometimes find it hard to justify why we should do things in a particular way. I wish I'd read this first!

1 comment:

Buguldey said...: The book would be too expensive. Consider the following:

Windows Vista keyboard guidelines

Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

Windows XP Design Guidelines (note that it is .exe!! I didn't open that .exe)

How to Create the Best User Experience for Your Application (April 2006, Average rating: 6 out of 9)

User Interface Design and Development

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 default keymap

Some (very bad) searches

Google site:microsoft.com "UI guidelines"; 9:50 pm

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