Palm Developer Center

User Interface Guidelines

This section is intended for designers and developers who want to design a Palm webOS application. The User Interface section contains:

  • An introduction to the Palm webOS platform, describing what the platform and its applications look like, how they work, and how users can interact with them
  • The Palm webOS Application Design Philosophy and Guidelines
  • Examples of "Good Design"
  • Details about UI Controls you can use in your designs
  • How to style your applications with CSS and Palm® Mojo™
  • The best way to design classic websites for the Palm webOS web browser
Section Description
User Interface Summary Summarizes how to plan and create the UI for your application.
Human Interface Guidelines A complete guide to designing webOS applications.
Top Tips for Great webOS App UIs Palm worked very closely with a group of developers to create the first batch of webOS applications—we all learned a lot in the process. Read this document to benefit from a few things we learned along the way.
Developing Web Content for the Palm webOS Platform Describes the browser and how to design mobile web sites optimized for webOS devices.
Styles Matters Describes widgets, how to instantiate, set up, and use any widget; summarizes the widget set and indexes reference documentation.