[IxDA Discuss] example of design standards guide?

[Jonathan Arnowitz]

I have been using a hierarchy of User Experience Guidelines.  We have
corporate standards, the branding and some trademark interactions, then we
have a a company User Experience Standards which cover the platform
standards. Then we have application or solution standards, which are how a
given application applies the Corporate Standards and the UX Standards. Then
we have indiivdual UI specs whicha re the implementation of those specs.

We try to use a single tool for this, the one we chose is Sevensteps (
www.sevensteps.com) they are coming out with a generic version of their UI
Guidelines Editor to, this will probably be available by Q3 of this year.
The advantage of this tool is its ability to use a single source to support
mutiple publications in many mediums (pdf, web, etc.)

---Jonathan

On 6/26/07, Tom Dell'Aringa <pixelmech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/26/07, Jon Strande <jstrande at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Not sure if this is what you had in mind, however, a couple of thoughts:<http://www.sun.com/webdesign/>
> >
> > 2.) We use a product called GUIGuide from Classic Systems.
> >  - http://classicsys.com/css06/cfm/guiguide.cfm
> >
> > Let me know if you'd like to discuss how we use GUIGuide.
>
>
> Jon, the GUIGuide is exactly the thing I am talking about. It's more than
> just what color to use where (although that would be part of it), and so
> forth. Would be great if you could elaborate on how you use it, and how or
> if you development team sees it as an asset. Basically it looks to me like
> software organized around the idea of a design standards guide to make it
> easy to access for everyone.
>
> Tom
>



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