OLPC Human Interface Guidelines

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The Core Ideas

Activities, Not Applications

Though it might take a little while to get used to, there are no applications on the laptop, and no application developers making them. Instead, the user experience on the laptop focuses around activities. At OLPC we see this as much more than a semantic difference in the naming convention; it represents an intrinsic quality of the types of things that are going to make the laptops work, which the following points should elucidate. As such, please familiarize yourself with the terminology and take it seriously during development and anytime you talk about the activities you create.

Collaboration

Emphasis on Creation

Journaling

Design Fundamentals

Know Your Audience

Key Design Principals

The Laptop Experience

Introduction

Zoom Metaphor

The Frame

Bulletin Boards

The Journal

Activities

The Sugar Interface

Input Systems

The Grid System

Icons

Rollovers Replace Menus

Cursor

Controls