User experience (UX) guidelines for Windows, Dynamics NAV and AX

User experience (UX) guidelines for Windows, Dynamics NAV and AXUser 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.

HOW TO: Show large icons in Windows Vista / XP QuickLaunch bar?

Are you sick and tired of small icons in your QuickLaunch bar? Or you like them but you would like to try out something new? Well look no more, in this short HOW TO article I will show you how easy it is to enlarge icons in QuickLaunch bar and make your Taskbar distinctive.

HOW TO: Make taskbar in Windows Vista/XP to look more like one in Windows 7

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.

Preconceptions are part of user experience, too (Earth was flat once)

I am reading plenty of blogs these days and everyone seems to be blogging about now infamous Mojave Experiment. I’m catching on Mojave Experiment but from somewhat different perspective – talking about preconceptions as a genuine and almost always indispensable part of user experience.