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User interface style conventions

Industry guidelines

These GUI guidelines were taken into consideration for this design text (identified by abbreviations used in the body of this appendix):


CUA
IBM Object-Oriented Interface Design, IBM Common User Access Guidelines, 1992.

Windows
Microsoft Windows Interface Application Design Guide, 1993.

Motif
OSF/Motif Style Guide, 1993.

Tandem
Tandem Style Guide for Graphical User Interfaces, 1993.

Bellcore
Bellcore Design Guide for Multiplatform Graphical User Interfaces. LP-R13, Issue 2, December 1994.

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