posted on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:33 PM
by
davidboschmans
Windows Vista UX Guide available
Microsoft just published a first version of the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines.
The goals for these official Microsoft Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (or “UX Guide” for short) are to:
- Establish a high quality and consistency baseline for all Windows Vista applications.
- Answer your specific user experience questions.
- Make your job easier!
This set of html pages cover:
- What's new in Windows Vista. These articles summarize the new Windows Vista core UI features that you should use in your Windows Vista UI designs, and how they differ from Windows XP.
- The Top Rules, which summarizes the rules that the MSX Design team wants you to follow to create a high quality, consistent Windows Vista UI.
- The Top Guidelines Violations, which lists the most common guidelines violations that the MSX Design team is finding during Windows Vista design reviews.
- And finally, Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation, which gives you an overview of how to take advantage of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, codename “Avalon”).
Looking at the PDC sessions I know there's lots and lots of this stuff to be announced and shown the upcoming days.