Good morning.
In developing a new user interface - how have you folks established
standards?
When I google around I find an immense amount of information. Accessibility
standards. Industry standards. And many games and applications have
published their standards - how to make your
I've seen the custom look feel developed as a way of gaining product
differentiation - something 'shinier' for the demos. But for me, when it
comes to developing a non-terminal UI on top of unidata for your typical
business application, I would always recommend going with the UI
guidelines for
Keep in mind that fancier, is not always better. First you will need to
determine what information you
need, then look into UI that gather this type of information.
If your using a gui interface, using drop down boxes/radio buttons to
standardize selections is best
and text when least possible.
You are right there are accessibility standard esp for internet resources,
but no real de facto set of standards for data entry. I suppose this is
partly why UX is such a big topic these days. Remember all user interfaces
are designed, whether by the programmer as he goes along or by a designer.
If you are writing MS Windows applications this should be on your
bookshelf. A bit dated since it was originally written for Win2K but the
design strategies are the same. 500+ pages of how to make a Microsoftian
interface
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Symeon Breen
I have done a lot of reading in this area too, finding some of the best
information by googling for HCI (human computer interface) and UX (user
experience) sites and blogs.
In addition to reading about UI theory, it makes sense to zero in on the
particular run-time environment, such as a browser
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is torturous. smiles. --dawn
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote:
I have done a lot of reading in this area too, finding some of the best
information by googling for HCI (human
As far as UI standards for data entry applications are concerned, I
recommend Microsoft's User Experience Guidelines as a starting point.
Google msdn windows 7 user experience guidelines, navigate to the
MSDN page, find the PDF link and download the document.
Most business people use Microsoft
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On 12/07/10 14:26, George Gallen wrote:
Keep in mind that fancier, is not always better. First you will need to
determine what information you
need, then look into UI that gather this type of information.
Might not be easy having both, but can you keep both green screen and
gui? Gui is
There are a ton of web pages on UX but it really pays to spend
some time in different bookstores, where you'll find material
that you don't see online. I've read a lot of books on creating
good user interfaces, which may fly in the face of standards.
And conversely to all of this, a lot of
From:Rex Gozar
Have your developers read the book GUI Bloopers to avoid
stupid GUI layouts.
That reminds me: http://webpagesthatsuck.com/ They constantly
have new material over many years - you'd think people would
learn. It's worth it to spend a lot of time there.
Finally, desktop and
Even though I tend not to agree with everything Mr Spolsky writes, I'll
second his book User Interface Design for Programmers.
The interesting thing about Microsoft's User Experience Guidelines is
that MS doesn't follow them in their own office software, although, I
wouldn't say following them
We have had a number of problems with AE on UV/Windows; every now and again
- and sometimes repeatedly in the same couple of seconds - some catalog
pointer just disappears and AE stops working. We've experienced problems
with other UV sites and having catalog pointers just disappear but this is
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