Day: New Human Interface Guidelines for GNOME and GTK+

At his blog, Allan Day announces the preliminary availability of a brand-new edition of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). Prepared for the upcoming GNOME 3.14 release, this is the first major overhaul of the GNOME HIG in some time. Day notes: "There is a downside to all the experimentation that has been happening in software design in recent years, of course – it can often be a bewildering space to navigate. This is where the HIG comes in. Its goal is to help developers and designers take advantage of the new abilities at their disposal, without losing their way in the process. This is reflected in the structure of the new HIG: the guidelines don’t enforce a single template on which applications have to be based, but presents a series of patterns and elements which can be drawn upon." He also emphasizes that the new HIG, despite its name, is not a GNOME-only document, but is designed to aid interface design in other GTK+ applications, too.

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