On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 12:02 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > The HIG authors would be the first to tell you to worry about good > design first and HIG guidelines second. i.e. if you're solving a real > user problem in a good way, and need to bend some HIG guidelines a > little, no problem.
True; and if your solution is good enough (and somewhat generally-applicable), it may result in the HIG itself being modified to reflect that solution... that's often how new guidelines get in there. > i.e. think first about "what does this enable people to do with the > software?" and second "how easy will it be for them to do it?" These questions somewhat relate to an oft-overlooked document on the GUP website... the "Fundamental User Information" questions, which you can find here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/templates/fui_template.html A bit heavyweight for some projects certainly (mainly because it started as an internal doc at Sun), but it never hurts to read through it before you start. There's also a more recent version here, although it hasn't been GNOMEified as yet (so I apologise in particular for the question that mentions patents!): http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/10032006 Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
