Building upon the Windows 7 User Experience to delight your customers

Building upon the Windows 7 User Experience to delight your customers
Joseph Cooney
Development Consultant
Jcooney.net
DEV360
Dave Glover
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft
www.twitter.com/dglover

Agenda
Optimize
Get Compatible
Differentiate

7 Ways to Shine on Windows 7
Fundamentals
Taskbar
Libraries
Multi Touch
Ribbon
Sensor and Location
Graphics

Windows 7 Design Goals
Minimize change
Help bolster productivity
Create new and exciting experiences
Keep Laser sharp focus on OS stability, reliability and performance. More importantly avoid disruptions
Reduce learning curve and provide improved toolsets and documentation
Build next generation software experiences that make your users lives richer

Demo: Developer Integration points
Windows 7 User Experiences
Taskbar - pinning, reordering, jump lists, app preview, WinKey 1-9
Window docking – drag top, left, right, Aero Shake
Desktop Peek
Gadgets
Libraries
Scenic Ribbon (wordpad, paint) – including Collapsible Ribbon
Search
Federated Search - Office, Graysonline, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter
IE 8 Search Suggestions – Graysonline.com
OpenSearch Toolkit - http://opensearchtoolkit.codeplex.com/

Extending in to Windows 7 User Experience
Windows API Code Pack

Managed class library to ease .NET access to Windows 7 features
Shell, Libraries, Taskbar, Sensor, Graphics, Multi Touch, UAC, Power management, Restart and recovery, Network awareness, Aero Glass and more.
It is a library not a full product
Open source with no support
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack

Jump ListsA detailed look
Pinned category
Destinations
(“nouns”)
Known categories
Custom categories
User tasks
Tasks
(“verbs”)
Taskbar tasks

Taskbar Overlay and ProgressDesign considerations
Consolidate: Uncluttered notification area
Provide progress and additional information through the taskbar button
It’s free if you use standard progress dialogs

Live Thumbnails
Live thumbnails: A livepreview
Windows Vista®: One thumbnail per window
Windows 7: Grouped thumbnails

Thumbnail Toolbars
Remote control from the taskbar

Get Compatible

Step 1: Getting Compatible
FAIL

App Compatibility: Breaking Changes
Runs on Vista then runs on Windows 7 (but test)
Top Gotchas
Version checking
User Account Control (Data Redirection, UIPI, Install)
IE Protected Mode
Services Isolation
Installer Detection
High DPI
Low level binary changes
Application Compatibility Bible
“Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook”

Windows 7 Training Kit
Launch Training Kit

Differentiate
Multi-touch
Sensor platform
Ribbon

Touch : UX Considerations
General guidelines
Big targets
Whitespace
Avoid hover
See Windows UX guidelines
Be aware of hardware
Form factor
Edges, jitter, etc.
Gesture guidelines
Use common gestures
Gestures need to be intuitive and natural
Moving away from shortcut style gestures to manipulations

Sensor & Location Platform
Gadget or script
Application
Application
Location API
Location IDispatch Interface
Sensor API
Location and Other Sensors Control Panel
User
System
Sensor class extension
Sensor class extension
UMDF sensor driver
UMDF sensor driver
Logical location sensor
(Triangulation)
Sensor
device

Summary
Optimize
Get Compatible
Differentiate

question & answer

www.microsoft.com/teched
Sessions On-Demand & Community
www.microsoft.com/learning
Microsoft Certification & Training Resources
http://microsoft.com/technet
Resources for IT Professionals
http://microsoft.com/msdn
Resources for Developers
Resources

Related Content
Breakout Sessions (session codes and titles)
CLI307:App Compat for Windows 7: Unlocking the power of shims
Interactive Theater Sessions (session codes and titles)
OpenSearch Toolkit: Blue Interactive Theatre at 11am
Hands-on Labs (session codes and titles)
Hands-on Labs (session codes and titles)

Track Resources
Compatibility
The Green Light
Windows 7 Training Kit
The App Compat Guy
Top compatibility Topics
Developer for Windows 7 on MSDN
Application Compatibility
Engineering Windows 7 blog
Windows 7 Developers Blog
XP->Vista->Win7
Vista->Win 7
Windows 7 Experiences
Federated Search
Scenic Ribbon
Gadgets
Jump Lists
Photosuru
OpenSearch Toolkit

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Contextual Tab Set
Help
Tab
Quick Access Toolbar
Contextual Tab
Dialog Box Launcher
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