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Here are some other resources: Opera TV Styleguide Interactive Television Design by BBC (this one is made for former IP-TV tech called MHP, but it goes into specific technical details of TV-Screens and how to design for it ie. typosize, screensize) Several rules can improve legibility on screen: Body text should not generally be smaller than 24 ...

I recommend checking the guidelines given by Google with regards to designing for Google TV. To quote them: When designing a web page for TV, the viewable area should display less information overall, and what's there should focus on a confined set of tasks (even consider performing their desired task automatically or select by default). Try to keep ...

Microsoft's touch interaction guidelines for Metro apps (generally used on screens like those) vary from 5–9 mm square, depending on the tolerance you provide to undo accidental presses. Touch screens aren't all built alike, though; some are extremely precise and some are very poor with touch accuracy. As the panels increase in size to 17 inches and above ...

A few pointers: Larger fonts, as TV sets are usually about 3m / 10feet away and resolution is usually 1920x1080 (smaller pixels) Bright text (not too bright) on dark background TVs are usually in living room which is not lighted as much as offices therefore an average color close to white is too bright for eyes Since TVs are further away, higher contrast ...

Note Fitts's Law is for pointing in two dimensional space by the way; tapping is a different action. Touch occurs in three dimensional space unlike dragging a mouse. There's lots of other stuff I could say about the differences, but the main thing is you shouldn't be trying to directly calculate it in most cases. Look to Fitts's Law as a rough guide, you ...

What if you kill off the save button completely and switch to autosave instead? Do you have any inconsistencies then? You could have individual Reset buttons perhaps, which goes back to the state it was when the form was opened. Simply you start to save the first valid data, and update backend every 10 seconds or so, and make sure you save on close. ...

Save buttons, and other document related function are traditionally in the top left corner (not in the extreme, but left aligned with other buttons in a toolbar), and are above the content that it would be saving. On the web however, many users expect the save button underneath your content, especially if scrolling is involved. Benefits of Global Save ...