The Human Interface Guidelines, Leopard edition, is now live. (Or back from the dead.)
Thoughtfully introduces bottom bars and scope bars, as well as tries to provide some rationale for every possible transmutation in the interface (like capsule vs round-rect toolbar buttons).
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Thanks for the tip. I downloaded the PDF one day too early. Makes me feel better about not getting to reading it yesterday!
By n[ate]vw · 2008.01.16 20:24
FYI: the new PDF is ~70 pages thicker and over twice the file size (13.5 versus 28 megabytes). Any other changes you’ve noticed, or is there a “what’s new” document posted as well?
By n[ate]vw · 2008.01.16 20:30
There’s a lot of meat in the controls section and a bunch of small new chapters (like about designing 512×512 icons for Leopard).
By Jesper · 2008.01.16 20:44
I guess ‘because we feel like it’ isn’t a very good reason. At least they don’t need to try and explain the reasons for the previous 4 different styles of window now.
By Matt J · 2008.01.16 20:46
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By Michael Tsai - Blog - Leopard HIG · 2008.01.17 00:19
In a quick, I-really-need-to-be-in-bed-now skim, I noticed these statements:
“If you are creating an icon that will never change size—on a bevel button, for example—you can supply the image in the actual size only.”
“Icons for regular-size rectangular-style toolbar controls should measure no more than 19 x 19 pixels.”
Hey, Mr. Geleynse, aren’t we supposed to be thinking in resolution-independent terms by now?
By http://jens.ayton.se/ · 2008.01.17 02:59