Windows Vista UX Guidelines

The team from Redmond have published User Experience Guidelines for application developers looking to leverage new windowing and widget elements found in Vista.

The goals for these UX Guidelines seem to be:

• Establish a high quality and consistency baseline for all Windows Vista-based applications.
• Answer specific user experience questions.
• Make the job of designing 'easier'.

Far be it from me to expound the virtues of a given platform, but, following these guidelines will at least make the job of conforming to Section 508 and W3C accessibility mandates and guidelines much easier as your Vista-based application can more effectively leverage the native widgets and windowing elements of the platform.

Check out the Vista UX Guidelines page on MSDN.