User eXperience (UX) Guidelines

“Everything is best for something and worst for something else.
The trick is knowing for what, when, for whom, and why.” — Bill Buxton

Found some interesting resources on user experience, and user interface designing, during past few weeks. after goin thru all these I realized that most of our designs are crappy and there are much much .. and much more to think before getting into conclusions!!! :-(

MIX09, Day 1 keynote featuring Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie, Return on experience – By design
http://mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net/o9/mix/09/wmv/key01.wmv

Infragistics, one of the best UI composers have published a Silverlight application compiled with all the UI patters with samples screenshots. You can surf thru the patters, search for a pattern and explore it!

Infragistics, Quince UI Patterns
http://quince.infragistics.com/#/Search

MSDN, Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/1/9/e191fd8c-bce8-4dba-a9d5-2d4e3f3ec1d3/ux%20guide.pdf

MIX08, The Story of The Ribbon
http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX08/UX09

I think most of the areas have been covered by Microsoft UX Guidelines document. However, I thot of having some general usability lesson as well;

UIPatterns, User Interface Design Pattern Library
http://ui-patterns.com/

UXBooth, 10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/10-usability-lessons-from-steve-krug%E2%80%99s-dont-make-me-think/

UXBooth, 5 Tips to Make Your Headings More User Friendly
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/5-tips-to-make-your-headers-more-user-friendly/

UXBooth, 5 More Tips to Make Website Headers More User Friendly
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/5-more-tips-to-make-website-headers-more-user-friendly/

UXBooth, Quick Usability Checklist
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/quick-usability-checklist/