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Apple OSX Sami Pohjolainen, Gulshan Kumar
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This is a presentation about Apple OSX guidelines Sami Pohjolainen, k0posa00@students.oamk.fi k0posa00@students.oamk.fi Gulshan Kumar, k0kugu00@students.oamk.fi k0kugu00@students.oamk.fi
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines These guidelines are designed to assist you in developing products that provide Mac OS X users with a consistent visual and behavioral experience across applications and the operating system.
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Involve users in the design process Avoid feature cascade Apply 80 percent solution Detailed explanations on how to design user input: Mouse, trackpad, keyboard. Selecting, editing etc. Drag-n-drop, text, menus, icons and pointers. Windows and its controls. Layout. Keyboard shortcuts.
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Text is prevalent throughout the interface for such things as button names, pop-up menu labels, dialog messages, and onscreen help. Using text consistently and clearly is a critical component of interface design. Supports standard fonts for interface elements. Provides a standard Colors window for picking colors.
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Aqua offers a photo-illustrative icon style—it approaches the realism of photography but uses the features of illustrations to convey a lot of information in a small space. The graphic flexibility of Aqua icons can also help users identify files associated with an application. Application icons should be vibrant and inviting, and should immediately convey the application’s purpose.
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Menus are user interface elements that users refer to frequently, especially when they are seeking a function for which they know of no other interface. Ensuring that menus are correctly organized, are worded clearly,and behave correctly is crucial to the user’s ability to explore and access the functionality of your applications. Guideline gives very detailed explanations on how menus work at the most basic level.
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Menus appear in several different forms in the Mac OS X interface.
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Help Menu should be the rightmost menu of the application’s menus. Only one custom item in the Help menu, but if more items, they should appear below the ApplicationName Help menu should not be a table of contents for the help book
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Help Book is a collection of HTML files that provide onscreen help for a particular product. Help button is a button that opens Help Viewer to the help content appropriate for the context. A help button is a round button with a question mark. Help Viewer is a simple browser used to display Apple Help HTML files. Help Tag is a brief text explanation that appears when the user leaves the pointer hovering over an interface element for a few seconds.
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Aqua is the overall appearance and behavior of Mac OS X. Aqua defines the standard appearance of specific user interface components: Windows, menus, and controls. Anti-aliased appearance of text and graphics, shadowing, transparency, and careful use of color. Uses high-resolution, high-quality graphics and icons that include 32-bit color and transparency. Keep graphics simple, and use them only when they truly enhance usability. Don’t overload windows and dialogs with dozens of icons or buttons. Includes layout guidelines
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Apple explains the design process itself Involving end-users and how to make design decisions. What are the characteristic of great software? High performance, ease of use, attractive appearance, reliability, adaptability, interoperability, and mobility. Explains principles of HID Familiarity, simplicity, availability and discoverability etc. How to prioritize design decisions Meet minimum requirements, deliver features that end- users expect, differentiate your application. Software installations and updates Packaging, installation, assistants and updating.
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