Usability/Apple, Gnome, Windows, KDE-Differences in GUI

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General

• What is a Graphical User Interface? (wikipedia)

User Interface Guidelines

• KDE User Interface Guideline
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
• Microsoft User Interface Design and Development
• Apple "User Experience" Guidelines

Presentation Slides

• Some remarks to the location of the main navigation button in different desktops - pdf (1.3 MB)
• Presentation based on the screenshots used in the talk
• The same presentation, this time as a .zip file (2 MB)

Links

• Something emotional: Linus Torvalds and his very personal opinion about Gnome...
• KDE 3.3 Usability Review
• Gnome 2.6 Usability Review
• Some new (possible leaked) screenshots of the upcoming new windows-version "Vista" (Currently in development)

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