SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: [Sigia-l] Form Usability - Search &a
Re: [Sigia-l] Form Usability - Search & Cancel location
From: Tanya Rabourn (rabourn_at_columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 15:12:53 EDT
Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> One of the major achievements of Apple in building the MacOS was in
> providing developers withtools that encouraged a standard approach, and
> provided extensive user interface guidelines as a printed (or printable)
> document. Anyone who hasn't seen these and who has anything to do
> with interface design would be well advised to have a look at them
> some time.
Definitely. They have a version of the pre OS 8 tucked away on
their site at
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html
> The Mac interface guidelines not only tell you that the buttons should be
> labeled 'Cancel' and 'OK, but also specify the locations of the buttons
> down to preferred pixel spacing from each other, from the edge of the
<snip>
Example at
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-146.html
The brief bit on consistency in the UI is very well articulated
along with a caution about user expectations.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-20.html
-Tanya
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[User Services Consultant]
AcIS R & D <www.columbia.edu/acis/rad>
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