Microsoft Windows user experienceMicrosoft Press
Microsoft Windows user experience
by Microsoft Press · first published 1999
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…teaching introductory UI design; with the 3D-ness you can clearly see the different states that each UI element requires. I also really like the quotes about each component! Is there an online copy of this Microsoft Windows User Experience manual somewhere?
on “98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs” ↗…developers, UX designers, anyone who actually made UIs in some capacity were to read cover-to-cover and subsequently apply the principles (or if relevant, the Windows/MacOS platform specific norms) the Microsoft Windows User Experience Guidelines & Apple Human Interface Guidelines rather than uxdesign.trendy blog, we'd be much better off.
on “I got irritated by my dad’s cluelessness with gadgets but maybe tech is to blame” ↗Good catch - You can probably tell which parts I took from Microsoft Windows User Experience [0] and which I built while eyeing my VM. Unsure why there's a discrepancy. You're probably right re: taskbar buttons. https://i.imgur.com/dxOYj2Y.png https://i.imgur.com/X3DJ50T.png [0] https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Experience-Professi...
on “98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs” ↗What book are you talking about? Is it "Microsoft Windows User Experience" published by Microsoft Professional Editions? Aside: Thank you for your video! It looks great and that's yet another OS I'd like to try and play with -- along with Plan 9, which Serenity made me think…
on “SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]” ↗Yes indeed! “Microsoft Windows User Experience”. I got a used copy off of Amazon last year for $2
on “SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]” ↗IMHO peak GUI was in 2000s - on Windows most app used Win32 API and apps which followed "Microsoft Windows User Experience" guide had consistent UI/UX. Since then Microsoft introduced many competing frameworks to create GUI all look slightly different and UX is less consistent too. And then Electron come which brought inconsistency…
on “strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance” ↗The page references a document Microsoft Windows User Experience. Is this online somewhere? I can only find Amazon links. Are there other good design manuals I can find online?
on “98.css” ↗