Chris De Herrera's Windows CE Website

About
Discuss.Pocket PC FAQ Forum

Add Pocket PC FAQ to your Favorites
RSS    RSS Feeds
Wiki    Lost?
Custom Search
Subscribe    Print
Miscellaneous
Table of Contents
Mobile Format
News

[an error occurred while processing this directive]


 
Pocket PC Magazine Best Site

Website Awards
Website Updates

By Chris De Herrera 
Copyright 1998-2007
 All Rights Reserved
A member of the Talksites Family of Websites

Windows and Windows CE are trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation
and are used
under license from owner.
CEWindows.NET is not
associated with Microsoft 
Corporation.

All Trademarks are owned
by their respective companies.

User Interface Consistency
By Chris De Herrera, Copyright 2001
Revised 11/18/2001

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

User Interface Consistency

While snapping over 150 screen shots of the Pocket PC 2002, I noticed that the user interface is still not consistent.

Examples

Scroll bar is not required but displayed

How can you rest your palm on the screen?

Ok Button in dialog box instead of titlebar

Add Button instead of Add Item in list

New button instead of new item in list

Inbox introduces a new metaphor for Help

Conclusion

If Microsoft wants developers and users to adjust to the User Interface, then it should be consistent. It's disappointing to see multiple applications with these inconsistencies.


[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Return to Chris De Herrera's Windows CE Website