September 15th, 2009


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Sep 09

Acknowledging One’s Own Mistakes

I was plowing through the 800+ pages of the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines (UX-Guide) and found this gem on guide guestions for Group Boxes:

Are all the controls inside the group? If so, indicate the relationship on the larger surface, such as the parent dialog box or page.

Incorrect:
Aa511459.GroupBoxes03(en-us,MSDN.10)

This is the same dialog box that is currently in Vista. It takes guts to bluntly point out ones one mistake (although in this case, since Vista is not a complete re-design, the miss is understandable…almost), so ++ points to Microsoft.

There are tons of other examples using their own existing UI in the UX-Guide.