User Experience
Windows offers everything developers need to create impressive user experiences. Developers can provide consistency and elegance in their user-interface designs by following user-education guidelines. Windows includes the Windows Presentation Foundation, which enables developers to enrich user experiences in applications. Windows also provides tools that enable users to visualize, organize, and search within applications.
1. Follow the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines
Windows Vista offers a new look and user experience for users, including new common controls, translucent frames, a page navigation paradigm, and a standard search feature. By following the Windows Vista User Experience guidelines, developers can provide their users with a consistent and predictable user experience by implementing the following elements (among others):
2. Enrich the User Experience
Windows provides a number of tools and technologies aimed at creating a fantastic user experience, including the following:
3. Enable Users to Visualize, Organize, and Search
Windows Vista changes how users interact with their files, messages, and other items. With new concepts such as search folders, stacks, grouping and filtering, users are no longer restricted to using folders only as a way of organizing their content.
Developers can directly use many of the following Windows search and organization features from within their applications: