PPT Slide
- Windowing design guidelines:
- design easy to use and learn window operations (complexity of windowing interfaces should NOT cancel out advantages).
- minimise the number of window operations necessary to achieve a desired effect.
- make navigation between windows particularly easy and efficient to do.
- make setting up windows particularly easy to remember.
- provide salient visual cues to identify ‘active’ window.
- provide a consistent ‘user model’ of windows (window is an object OR workspace OR dialog box).
- allow overlapping when displays are unpredictable, screens are small, and users are fairly frequent and experienced.
- in overlapping windowing, provide powerful commands for arranging windows on the screen in user-tailorable configurations.