Author: frik85
Date: Sat Jun 24 16:14:05 2006
New Revision: 22557
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User Interface Guidelines:
Extensive list of useful user interface guideline resources.
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+<h1>User Interface Guidelines</h1>
+<p> </p>
+<h2>ReactOS® relevant user interface guidelines</h2>
+
+<h3>ReactOS®</h3>
+
+<p>ReactOS Foundation</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Preliminary Documentation<br>
+ <a
href="http://www.reactos.org/wiki/">http://www.reactos.org/wik…
+</ul>
+<h3>Windows®</h3>
+
+<p>Microsoft Corporation</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows UI</strong><br>
+ User Interface Design and Development<br />
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/ui/">http://msdn.microsoft.com…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows User Experience</strong><br>
+ Complete book online available on msdn.com<br />
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp&q…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows Shell</strong><br>
+ Shell Programmer's Guide, Shell Basics, etc.<br>
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_winsh…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows User Interface</strong><br>
+ Data Exchange, Low Level Client Support, Resources, User Input, Windowing<br>
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuseri…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>Usability Publications</strong><strong><br>
+ </strong>Published Materials from Microsoft's usability
community.<br>
+ <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/usability/publications.mspx">ht…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows XP - UI Guidelines</strong><br>
+ Windows XP Visual Guidelines<br>
+ <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/windowsxp/downloads/default.…
(EXE, 5 MB download) </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows Vista - UI Guidelines</strong><br>
+ Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (preliminary documentation)<br>
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/UxGuide/UXGuide/Home.asp…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Windows UI Programming Newsgroup</strong><br>
+ Discussions in "win32.programmer.ui" (Windows Live(tm) ID requierd to ask
questions)<br>
+ <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.p…
+</ul>
+
+
+<p> </p>
+<h2>Other operating systems, shells and environsments </h2>
+
+<h3>MacOS®</h3>
+
+<p>Apple Computers, Inc</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Apple Human Interface Guidelines</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptu…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptu…
(PDF, 13 MB download)</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>CDE™</h3>
+<p>Sun Microsystems </p>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification
Checklist</strong><br>
+ Solaris/Unix Common Desktop Environment (Motif) <br>
+ <a
href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-6490?q=Motif+Style+Guide&qu…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://192.18.109.11/802-6490/802-6490.pdf">http://192.18.109.11/802-6490/802-6490.pdf</a>
(PDF, 500 KB download)</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>CDE & Motif</h3>
+<p>Open Group (HP, IBM, Novell, Sun)</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide </strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040303231326/http://nscp.upenn.edu/…
(
archive.org backup version) </li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Gnome®</h3>
+<p>Gnome project </p>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>GNOME Human Interface Guidelines </strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/index.html"…
+ <a
href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/">http://develop…
</a> </li>
+</ul>
+<h3>IRIX®</h3>
+<p>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</p>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>IRIX Interactive Desktop User Interface
Guidelines</strong><br>
+ GUI developer book for IRIX 6.5<br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?cmd=toc&a…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/2000/007-2167-006/dl/007…
(HTML, 4 MB download) <br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/2000/007-2167-006/pdf/00…
(HTML, 4 MB download) </li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Indigo Magic™</h3>
+<p>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</p>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines
</strong><br>
+ GUI developer book for IRIX 5.3 <br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?cmd=toc&a…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/2000/007-2167-002/dl/007…
(HTML, 3 MB download) <br>
+ <a
href="http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/2000/007-2167-002/pdf/00…
(PDF, 1 MB download) </li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Java™</h3>
+<p>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines (2nd
ed.)</strong><br>
+ Java developer book <br>
+ <a
href="http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/">http://java.…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines: Advanced Topics
</strong><br>
+ Java developer book <br>
+ <a
href="http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/at/book/">http://java.s…
+</ul>
+<h3>KDE®</h3>
+<p>KDE project </p>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>KDE User Interface Guidelines</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basic…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/style…
</a>(PS, 500 KB download)<br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/style…
</a>(PDF, 500 KB download)</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>OpenStep™</h3>
+<p> Sun Microsystems </p>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>OpenStep User Interface Guidelines</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-2109?q=OpenStep">ht…
(online version) <br>
+ <a
href="http://192.18.109.11/802-2109/802-2109.pdf">http://192.18.109.11/802-2109/802-2109.pdf</a>
(PDF, 500 KB download)</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>SAA Common User Interface</h3>
+<p>International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>SAA Common User Interface Design
Guide</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/CEE…
+</ul>
+<p> </p>
+<h2>Website Usability </h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>IBM Ease of Use Homepage</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/558">h…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website</strong>
<br>
+<a href="http://www.useit.com">http://www.useit.com</a></ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>uidesign.net </strong><br>
+<a href="http://www.uidesign.net">http://www.uidesign.net</a>
+</ul>
+<p> </p>
+<h2> Resources</h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui">Athena User
Interface Usability Test </a></li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Bad Human Factors Designs</strong><br>
+ A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not
follow human factors principles. <br>
+ <a
href="http://www.baddesigns.com">http://www.baddesigns.com/<…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Bruce Tognazzini's AskTog</strong><br>
+ Interaction Design Solutions for the Real World <br>
+ <a href="http://www.asktog.com">http://www.asktog.com</a>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Gary Perlman's Suggested Readings in HCI, UI &
HF</strong><br>
+ Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Development & Human Factors
<br>
+ <a
href="http://www.hcibib.org/readings.html">http://www.hcibib.o…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Gnome Usability Project</strong><br>
+ external resources<br>
+ <a
href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/references.html">…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li> <strong>HCI Bibliography</strong><br>
+ Human-Computer Interaction <br>
+ <a href="http://www.hcibib.org">http://www.hcibib.org</a>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Interface Hall of Shame (Pixelcentric)
</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://www.pixelcentric.net/x-shame/">http://www.pixelce…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Joel Spolky's User Interface Design for Programmers
</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://static.userland.com/gems/joel/uibookcomplete.htm">…
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>User Interface Hall of Shame</strong><br>
+ <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021105045753/http://www.iarchitect.…
(
archive.org backup version)
+</ul>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>User Interface Engineering</strong> <br>
+ <a href="http://www.uie.com">http://www.uie.com</a>
</li>
+</ul>
+<p> </p>
+<hr>
+<p><strong>History:</strong></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>2006-06-24: Initial version of the ReactOS User Interface Guidelines [Klemens
Friedl - frik85]</li>
+</ul>
+<p align="center"><em><a
href="http://www.reactos.org">www.reactos.org</a></em></p>
+
+<p></p>