[UI] Squeak UI guidelines/heuristics

[David Mitchell]

I noticed the wyoGuide is released under the wxWindows license, which
is essentially LGPL and should make it a friendly base from which to
fork. I presume a fork would be necessary as I doubt wxWindows is
particularly Squeaky.

On 8/24/07, David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to start with something complete and then talk about how
> Squeak differs and whether or not that difference is desirably
> Squeaky.
>
> This page has a good start with which to compare:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines
>
> I'm (historically) partial to IBM CUA, but I know it isn't exactly sexy.
>
> On 8/24/07, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to get your ideas on compiling a list of UI guidelines or heuristics
> > that Squeak developers should follow. A few have mentioned they liked the
> > idea, but I'd like to hear from the whole group. Is it a dumb idea or maybe a
> > good one but tough to follow through? Too tough for our first go-round?
> > (which I should mention now: I think we need to find a couple of "jobs" that
> > we can accomplish fairly quickly to provide some success to the group.)
> >
> > If you think it's a good idea, we could discuss one at a time and when we have
> > a statement that we like, we could place it on the squeak wiki on a "Squeak
> > UI Guidelines" page.
> >
> > As I mentioned before, there are already plenty of Squeak UI precedences set
> > and maybe we could start with those that have been successful. Most of the
> > successful ones are ubiquitous and thus sometimes hard to see cuz we're so
> > used to them,  (for instance, the fact that you can edit what you see is a
> > basic and powerful attribute of Squeak. No need to go to a special "editor"
> > like a text editor or graphics editor to edit a morphic. )
> >
> > We could also discuss ideas that others have had, such as Jef Raskin's Humane
> > Interface, and if applicable bring them into our domain.
> >
> >
> > brad
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