Ethereal-dev: UI guidelines (was Re: [ethereal-dev] "Save" vs. "Save As")

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:25:14 -0700 (PDT)
The top-level URL for Apple's on-line HI guidelines is

	http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html

I couldn't find, in any place obvious, any similar on-line HI document
on Microsoft's Web site.  (I may just not have dug deep enough - after
all, the only reason I have the URL for the Mac stuff is that somebody
had sent around the URL

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-232.html

because that page had, as the message in an example of an alert box:

	"Monica Stories" could not be saved because the disk "Blackmail
	stuff" is full.

so I shall refrain from drawing any conclusions from the apparent
absence of any on-line guides at Microsoft. :-))

Some other URLs I've collected for UI stuff are:

IBM's CUA Basic Interface Design Guide:

	http://www.s390.ibm.com:80/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/
	    BOOKS/F29BDG00/CCONTENTS?SHELF=CEESL002

and their Object-Oriented Interface Design document:

	http://www.s390.ibm.com:80/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/
	    BOOKS/F29AL000/CCONTENTS?SHELF=CEESL002

The Linux/UNIX Independent Group for Usability Information (a group of
folks trying to do HCI work for UNIX-flavored OSes):

	http://www.luigui.org/

The Interface Hall of Shame, "an irreverent collection of examples of
common interface design mistakes":

	http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm

and its counterpoint, the Interface Hall of Fame:

	http://www.iarchitect.com/mfame.htm