Re: Need help creating a GUI Standards guide

["Sharon Burton-Hardin" <sharonburton -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Don't re-write the GUI standard. Microsoft has one and that is the one users
expect your product to use. Apple has one and if you are working on a mac
application, that is the one your users expect.

Get a copy of the current Microsoft standard at amazon.com - it is called
Users experience in Windows or something. Mine is in the trunk of my car so
I can't recall the exact name right now. I don't have the name of the apple
guide but I know there is one.

sharon

Sharon Burton-Hardin
Anthrobytes Consulting
909-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
President of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
www.iestc.org

----- Original Message -----
From: <mhbartel -at- ThoughtWorks -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: Need help creating a GUI Standards guide


| My project team is thinking of creating a GUI Standards guide for the
| project, i.e., the standards will apply only to this project.    Aside
from
| looking at other GUI Standards guides, does anyone have any suggestions
for
| _how_ to write such a guide?  Also, do you recommend any particularly good
| GUI Standards guides whose formats/organizations we could mimic?
|
| Thanks,
| Meg