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Microsoft Vista User Interface Guidelines Published

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looks-better dept.

SEMW writes "Microsoft has published the preliminary Official User Interface Guidelines for Windows Vista. Highlights include Top 12 Rules for the Windows Vista User Experience — and the use of screenshots from Windows XP as examples of what not to do. The full guidelines are as yet incomplete, but what is there makes for interesting reading."

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  1. Sucky UI design by edxwelch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Most of the rules are just about the Aero eye candy and do nothing for usabilty.
    If you look at rule 5 you will see that they still have the idiotic confirmation dialog boxes that only have a limited range of answers (ok, cancel, retry, yes, no). What happens if none of these answers are appropiate to the dialog question?
    This is a flaw, that you can't specify the button text in message dialogs that has been in most frameworks since day one.