User Interface Design Guidelines (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/5/2010

Windows CE 5.0 is equipped with a variety of guidelines that allow a user to design effective user interfaces.

For more information about design guidelines, see this Microsoft Web page.

The following table shows the debugging and testing tools that are available through Windows CE 5.0.

Resource	Description
Microsoft Web site for User Interface Text Guidelines	Provides guidelines for the design of user interface text. It provides instructions for using acronyms, understandable terminology, capitalization, and punctuation; provides helpful information about how to write effective error and informational message text; and provides tips about making user interface text geopolitically appropriate and localizable.
Ten Ways to Improve Your UI Text	Provides quick and easy techniques for you to make strategic improvements to your UI text.
Microsoft Web site for Usability Guidelines	Provides a checklist to help you confirm that your application's user interface meets usability requirements.
Microsoft Web site for Navigation Guidelines	Describes the various views (list view, summary view, and edit view) and provides recommendations for using them.
Microsoft Web site for Accessibility and Ergonomic Guidelines	Outlines the guidelines for developing an accessible user interface.

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