Window Behaviors

Window Behaviors

1. PARC and the Alto

2. PARC’s Principles

   • Visual metaphors
   • Avoiding modes
   • Overlapping windows

3. Microsoft and Tiled Windows

4. Full-Screen Application

5. Multipaned Applications

   • multipaned windows

6. Designing with Windows

   • Unnecessary rooms
   • Necessary rooms
   • Windows pollution

7. Window States

   • minimized
   • maximized

8. MDI versus SDI

   • multiple document interface
   • single document interface