User Interface Design Guidelines (Windows CE 5.0)

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Windows CE 5.0 is equipped with a variety of guidelines that allow a user to design effective user interfaces.

The following table describes the debugging and testing tools available through Windows CE 5.0.

Guidelines Description
User Interface Text Guidelines Provides guidelines for the design of user interface text. It provides instruction for using acronyms, understandable terminology, capitalization and punctuation. Additionally, this is where you will find helpful information about how to write effective error and informational message text, and tips on making your user interface text geopolitically appropriate and localizable.
Ten Ways to Improve Your UI Text Provides quick and easy techniques to make strategic improvements to your UI text.
Usability Guidelines Provides a checklist to help you confirm that your application's user interface meets usability requirements.
Navigation Guidelines Describes the various views (list view, summary view, and edit view) and provides recommendations for using them.
Accessibility and Ergonomic Guidelines Outlines the guidelines for developing an accessible user interface.

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