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Paul Laudeman » Looking for guidance in visually designing your Windows Applications?
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Looking for guidance in visually designing your Windows Applications?

Microsoft has for some time now offered the Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers book online at MSDN. Although now a bit dated and out of print, this book is still a good reference guide to how to build polished looking applications that embody the “Windows Experience”. This guide was orignally written around Windows 2000, but as any

Also, for all of you Longhorn enthusiasts, Microsoft also has a guide online to the building the Longhorn Aero “User Experience”

Great UI designs and principles, like those used for print, are timeless. If you want to give your application a top-notch professional appearence, be sure to check out these guides.

Posted 04-11-2004 8:05 AM by paul.laudeman
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Andrew wrote re: Looking for guidance in visually designing your Windows Applications?
on 04-11-2004 6:27 AM
Great!

The "Official Guidelines" book was invaluable to me a few years ago, making even an application based on Access 97 look professional.

I develop for the TabletPC now, and Microsoft seem to recommend developers to innovate with new interfaces, away from such guidelines.

However I will read with interest...
Paul Laudeman wrote re: Looking for guidance in visually designing your Windows Applications?
on 04-11-2004 7:22 AM
Oh, sure. Microsoft does come out with new versions of their common controls library with each new release of Windows or the Office products. In fact, the example controls used in the non-Longhorn verison are a bit dated.

The strength of the guide, as I see it, is organization and presentation of the information, as well as the actual layout of the controls themselves.

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