> Love it or hate it, Microsoft has defined guidelines for menus that
have
> formed de facto patterns by their pervasiveness. Check out
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511502.aspx for details.
It's interesting that they didn't include the Ribbon in the guidelines,
but that would be ano
Hi Panjak:
I frequently have to accommodate many options and types of navigations
depending on the business and client and the need to align the application
with a specific usage and therefore sometimes the navigation structure.
This may also be affected by the technology used, and the ramifica
It sounds like you need to do some card-sorting to handle all these
items..to reorganize them.
You may also want to explore what kind of mental models each of these
tasks have so they can be grouped accordingly.
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> I am looking for pointers on how to design desktop menus for a typical
Windows desktop application.
Pankaj,
Love it or hate it, Microsoft has defined guidelines for menus that have
formed de facto patterns by their pervasiveness. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511502.aspx f
- Office style Collapse and hide entries that aren't being used, and
especially those that can't be used at the time.
- OSX style sliding scrollbanes
- Vista style autocomplete commands
- Use the frame around your app to create palettes, like nouns, actions, etc.
- separate into panels that can b
Hi
I am looking for pointers on how to design desktop menus for a typical
windows
desktop application. My problem is that in our application we have around
170
menu items and its getting difficult to accomodate all without compromising
on either extending it horizontally (by having more top level
