Microsoft Windows User Experience (Microsoft Professional Editions)

By Microsoft Corporation

Book Overview

Useful for anyone who designs Windows software, the Microsoft Windows User Experience is the official guide to creating UIs that take full advantage of Windows 2000. Part style guide and part user... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735605661
• ISBN13: 9780735605664
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.6" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Style Guide

This book is a frame by frame, widget by widget, menu item by menu item prescription for "proper" Windows application etiquette. By following this book's advice, your applications will look and feel just like a member of Microsoft Office. You'll learn everything from how many units to space a button from the border of a box to how to select multiple discontinuous pieces of text and then copy and paste them across applications. There's even instructions on editing the registry so that your documents can be printed from the explorer. It's essentially a style guide for Windows GUIs the way the Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for writing English. It won't make you a good writer, but no one will correct your punctuation. I actually found this book useful from a Windows user perspective. It tells you how all the controls are supposed to work. If you use MS apps a lot, you've probably intuited a lot of this, but it's interesting to see it all laid out. This book does not explain how to use the Windows APIs to create GUIs. Get a book on Visual C++ or VB for that. This book does not explain how to design a usable application. Read Jeff Johnson's GUI Bloopers or Alan Cooper's About Face. This book does not teach you to be a visual designer. This book is about as interesting to read as a typical user's manual. It's one unforgiving piece of advice and description after the next without a single case study in the entire 500+ pages.Even so, if you want to understand how Windows apps are "supposed" to behave or you have to write such applications yourself, this book is a must-have.

Great book for GUI design

Great book on how to design a graphical user interface correctly. Very useful if you want to follow Microsoft's user standards (and why wouldn't you).

Looks very promising!

I haven't finished this book yet, but so far I'm very pleased. It's very comprehensive, and contains many screenshots. It also contains information about integration w/ Internet Explorer, which is important to me. The only downside is that it's written by Microsoft, so some of Windows' shortcomings aren't really discussed.

La recherche de la convivialité Windows

C'est un excellent ouvrage pour tout ce qui concerne l'interface graphique Windows. Il est relativement bien illustré. Il comporte de très nombreuses expériences d'utilisateurs pour permettre de développer des logiciels conviviaux et parfaitement adapté à l'environnement Windows.

An excellent reference book

A great reference book that makes it easy to follow the Windows interface standards. Microsoft has come a long way with their user interfaces, and this book lets you learn from their efforts.