Live Search UI Guidelines

10/16/2008

This section provides visual guidelines and recommendations to implement the Live Search brand into a Live Search application user interface (UI), and how to design a UI for Live Search functionality. These guidelines help you create a unified brand experience on a Windows Embedded NavReady powered device.

The LS4D functionality connects the search experience found at Windows Live at this Microsoft Web site together with the navigation experience provided by GPS systems. A customer can search for phone-book listings, and their portable navigation device (PND) can complete the experience by making these destinations discoverable with turn-by-turn directions.

In This Section

• Live Search Branding Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for branding a Live Search application.

• Font Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for using Windows brand fonts.

• Main Menu Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for designing a main menu.

• Signal Strength Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for using a signal-strength indicator.

• Search Results Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for displaying search results.

• Map Integration Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for integrating a Point of Interest (POI) returned from the Live Search Engine with a map.

• Favorites Integration Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for interaction between Favorites and the Live Search application.

• Help Menu Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for adding content to the Help menu.

• Microsoft Brand Signature Guidelines
  Provides UI guidelines for optionally using the Microsoft brand signature.

• Messaging Guidelines
  Provides messaging guidelines for creating online and print marketing collateral for a Live Search application.

Reference

• LS4D Reference
  Describes the programming elements that are provided in the LS4D API.

See Also

Concepts

LS4D Application Development
Live Search for Devices (LS4D)