MSN Direct UI Guidelines and Logo Requirements

10/16/2008

This topic provides a summary description of the user-interface (UI) guidelines and logo requirements that you must follow when you design a UI for the MSN Direct application. These guidelines help promote safety while the application is used in a car environment.

The MSN Direct application should provide a UI that follows the MSN Direct UI guidelines. The MSN Direct UI can be integrated into an existing UI for a portable navigation device (PND).

Overview of UI Guidelines and Logo Requirements

MSN Direct applications should be developed according to the following principles that maximize user safety while driving and operating the host device:

1. The application UI design minimizes the number of clicks required by the user to reach the content most frequently desired for each feature.
2. The application UI design provides a visual arrangement of each content screen that highlights the most pertinent information while filtering out less important and potentially distracting information.

MSN Direct Services Implementation Guidelines

The MSN Direct Services Implementation Guidelines is a handbook for developers and designers who want to incorporate MSN Direct services into new products. It provides detailed guidelines to assist you in building a UI that follows the principles described above, as well as information on data characteristics to assist developers in implementing MSN Direct services. This document covers guidelines for integrating the following components:

• Main menu
• Customer's subscription status and initial activation
• Signal-strength status
• Traffic
• Gas prices
• Weather
• Movie times
• Send to GPS (Received Locations)
• Local events
• News
• Stocks
• Emergency alerts
• Group messages

To obtain this document, send e-mail to dbbusdev@microsoft.com and request the Receiver Development Kit (RDK) from the MSN Direct team.

See Also

Concepts

How to Integrate MSN Direct into a Device