User experience guidelines for IBM Lotus rich client applications and plug-ins

Level: Introductory

18 Jan 2008

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This white paper describes user-interface design and interaction guidelines for designers and developers who are building IBM® Lotus® Notes® applications, IBM Lotus Sametime® V7.5 or later plug-ins, IBM Lotus Symphony™ plug-ins, IBM Lotus Expeditor plug-ins, or composite applications (assembling any mixture of plug-ins, Lotus Notes applications, and components built with IBM Lotus Component Designer).

In this article

• Introduction
  
  
• Title bars
  
  
• Menu bar and menus
  
  
• Context menus
  
  
• Open button and tab labels
  
  
• Toolbar
  
  
• Action bar
  
  
• Views and folders
  
  
• The sidebar
  
  
• Chat window extensions
  
  
• Preferences
  
  
• Dialog boxes
  
  
• Properties
  
  
• Status bar
  
  
• Messages - Info, Warning, Error
  
  
• Capitalization and punctuation
  
  
• Offline experience
  
  
• Search
  
  
• Log-in window
  

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Resources

• Download Lotus Symphony.
  
  
• Download a trial version of Lotus Notes from developerWorks.
  
  
• Download a trial version of Lotus Domino from developerWorks.
  
  
• Download a trial version of Lotus Sametime from developerWorks.
  
  
• Download the Lotus Expeditor Toolkit from developerWorks.

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