Friday, March 28, 2008

4D OS X Interface Guidelines Summary Chart


4D OS X Interface Guidelines Summary Chart
This summary chart makes it easier to design consistent looking forms in 4D for OS X. It shows the fonts, font sizes, buttons sizes, etc. needed for common situations that match Apple's human interface guidelines. It hasn't been updated yet to include some of the new button types available in 4D 2004, although it does point you to the proper pages in the official human interface guidelines document so you can find it easily enough for now.

You can download the summary chart here.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Archy - A radical look at the HCI

Has anyone seen this? This a ZUI 'Zoom-User Interface'.

Wikipedia entry provides a quick overview:

This seems too radical, although coming from Jef Raskin, part of original Macintosh team and human-computer interface expert, this looks promising.

Read below for understanding why Jef Raskin pushed for this: