Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
- Armstrong, Strohm. "Previewing the Common Controls DLL for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0." Microsoft Systems Journal, October 1996 and November 1996.
- Howlett, Virginia. Visual Interface Design for Windows. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.
- Tognazzini, Bruce. Tog on Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992.
- The Designed for Microsoft Windows logo requirements.
Describes the new common control features provided by Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows 98. These features give you significant flexibility and help eliminate the need for some custom controls.
While this book doesn't directly describe the design of the Windows 95 controls, it does describe the general motivation behind many of the Windows 95 design decisions. It contains useful information if you want to understand why Windows looks the way it does.
Chapter 36, "Case Study: One-Or-More Buttons," presents a case study on how Tognazzini designed a control that allows the user to select one or more items but not none. This case study is interesting because it shows how much effort is required for talented user interface designers to design a relatively simple interface.
The logo requirements have guidelines and recommendations for accessibility, which the standard controls satisfy.