eldavojohn writes "I've been charged with making a specific user interface style guide for a suite of software by my employer. I'm not quite sure where to start. So I turned to my favorite search engine only to be brutally disappointed with what is out there to help me. I'm a software developer but have not had any formal training in UI design or look and feel. I'm looking for something more than just "keep it simple, stupid." I'm looking more for something that is specific but not technologically dependent. This doesn't have to be a global standard, merely a document that illustrates how one would effectively describe look and feel. Does anyone know of such a guide either created by an organization, government or company for their own uses — possibly one even released under the creative common license?"
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maybe this is what you are looking for http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ [gnome.org]
kde should also have something similar but from what I have heard gnome:s more complete.
Long time ago, I found out that a good user interface is intuitive. After reading Don Norman's book 'The Design of Everyday Things' http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746 [amazon.com] I started to understand the how and why of good GUI design. I then decided to write only console based programs and daemon's:-)
gnome Human Interface Guidelines (Score:2, Informative)
kde should also have something similar but from what I have heard gnome:s more complete.
gnome:s HIG seams to be licensed under GNU FDL
Re: (Score:1)
learn from the masters.
Start smart (Score:1)