Re: Are there any global standards for User Interface Design?

["Subash" <subash_tc -at- speedpost -dot- net>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:50:21 +0530, "Abhijit Sinha"
<abhijits -at- newgen -dot- co -dot- in> asked:
> Are there global standards or parameters that you need to follow while
> designing the User Intrface of a software product? Are there guidelines
> according to the latest international standards that help you design the
> User Interface?

Hi Abhijit,

Alan Cooper's "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design" would
be a good book to start with. Jacob Nielsen also has compiled quite a lot
of guidelines in his "Aletbox" column at http://www.useit.com. 

U.S. federal government's Section 508, a statutory section in the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, contains guidelines for federal agencies to
ensure that their procurement of Electronic and Information Technology
takes into account the needs of all end users ? including people with
disabilities. Read more about section 508 compatibility at
http://www.section508.gov.

Since you haven't mentioned any details about your product, I have listed
a few guidelines below. Explore and extract the best out of these
resources: 

* HP/Compaq on User interfaces, Graphics, and Audiovisualization:
http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/org/ui.html

* JAVA Look and Feel Design Guidelines:
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/dg/index.htm

* Macintosh User Experience: http://developer.apple.com/ue/

* IBM East of Use:
http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/558 

* Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/HumanInterfaceToolbox/HumanInterfaceGuide/humaninterfaceguide.html

* Common Desktop Environment 1.0 Style Guide and Certification Checklist:
http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/558

* Microsoft User Experience and Interface Design Resources:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ui/default.asp

* Microsoft's Fundamentals of Designing User Interaction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/part1.asp

* W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/

* W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

* Smith & Mosier's Guidelines for designing user interface software:
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/hci/Guidelines/

Hope this helps. Have a nice weekend! 

-Subash

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