Development:Moodle User Interface Guidelines
NOTE: these guidelines were produced as part of a student project in 2009, and are not official Moodle guidelines. In fact, many of the pages below are currently incomplete or obsolete. They still need a lot of work to be regarded as useful and authoritative guidelines.
These guidelines are to be used as a UI reference library by Moodle developers when creating user interfaces.
It does not catalogue all the elements in use in Moodle, but is intended a reference of reusable elements sharing that common Moodle style. We aim to update this reference as new common practices appear. More...
Moodle basics
Moodle UI library
UIs are built of Elements and Interaction Styles (bigger wholes, which are built of Elements).
Elements
- Big Select List
- Hierarchy Browsing List
- Tooltip
- Link
- Button
- Address Bar (URLs)
Interaction Styles
- Wizard
- Help Popups (See Linking to help for now)
- Feedback page
- Form (incomplete)
- Radio button
- Checkbox
- Dropdown lists (incomplete)
General design guidelines
- Progressive Disclosure
- User Data Always (Always) Safe
- Feedback (Incomplete)
Relevant guidelines from other sites
- Design for People
- Don't Limit Your User Base
- Create a Match Between Your Application and the Real World
- Make Your Application Consistent
- Keep the User Informed
- Keep It Simple and Pretty
- Put the User in Control
- Forgive the User
- Provide Direct Manipulation
See also
Talk page: Development_talk:Moodle_User_Interface_Guidelines
