Usabiliy Portal

User Interface Guidelines

Our tiny knowledge base to improve our graphical user interface.

• Applied Interface Design Patterns
• SONIVIS visual design elements
• User Interface Guideline

Persona

• SONIVIS Persona

GUI SONIVIS v0.9

• SONVIS new graphical user interface

Resources/Best practice

Initiatives

• OpenUsability - initiative that promotes usability in Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) development
• Free/Libre/Open Source Usability - specific meeting dedicated to improve OSS usability

Examples for User Interface Guidelines

Open Source Software Projects:

• Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
• The GNOME Usability Project
• KDE Usability Project]
• OpenOffice.org - User Interface Design Project

Closed Source Software Projects:

• Introduction to Apple Human Interface Guidelines

General:

• Designing Social Interfaces

Paper Prototyping

• tools and templates are designed to assist you with your usability activities

Interaction Design Patterns

• Pattern library
• Common Ground pattern collection by Jenifer Tidwell
• Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell

Persona

• Develop Persona (contains much more interesting resources)

Literature resources of usability in open source software

• The Usability of Open Source Software (Link collection)