User experience guidelines (UX Guides) are very useful design guidelines. Though they will not teach you how to design great user experiences – they will help you design your applications and avoid common mistakes. I’m sharing UX guidelines for Windows, NAV 2009 and AX 2009 with you.

While you are waiting for Windows 7 to go into beta and after that to go into RTM and become broadly available, you can play with your Windows Vista /XP taskbar and make it to resemble one in Windows 7. Of course, resemblance will be just slight, but still interesting to play with.

Where to find and download new Windows 7 screenshots? What is new and what is improved in Windows 7? I’m bringing you very nice collection of Windows 7 screenshots and some commentary. Scenic ribbon? For sure! New Windows 7 taskbar? You betcha!

After Paint in new Windows 7, now here comes the first screenshot of new WordPad in Windows 7. And again it’s all from UX Evangelist. Yesterday I was happy to see ribbons and but asked myself are they just missing the point. But now, after WordPad I know answer on that question.

It all started yesterday when Stephen Chapman talked about new Paint in Windows 7 M3, and today guys over at LiveSide are publishing out screenshots of new Windows Live Wave 3 stuff. Common line: Ribbons are almost everywhere. But are they just missing the point?