Guidelines-based review
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Introduction
In a guidelines-based review designers or other persons are asked to check a system against a longer list of items. Guidelines can include hundreds of items ....
Guideline based reviews are done in several contexts:
- In usability testing such reviews can be either "low cost and better than nothing" review or be used as a complementary usability method.
- A related purpose is to test whether an application is consistent with platform-specific conventions, e.g. Mac OS X, Windows 7, Android, etc.
See also: heuristic evaluation
List of well-known guidelines and manuals
Usability of web sites
Usefocus usability evaluation workbook
Authors: David Travis (userfocus.co.uk), July 6, 2009
Available as 247 web usability guidelines, ie a free Excel workbook by
The workbook is organized in
Author: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
These fairly detailed guidelines are organized by chapters and each guideline is rankend in importance and also scientific evidence.
General web design guidelines
The The Web Style Guide 3rd edition
Author: Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
The first version of the Web Style Guide was a web site called the Yale Web Style Guide and posted in 1993. A 2nd update was published in 1997 and in 1999 a first print edition was produced. The current, 3rd edition, is available both online (free and unabridged) and in book form.
This book isn't a guideline in the classical sense, rather an introductory text about web site design. However, several chapters include explicit guidelines, e.g. Universal Usability Guidelines.
Generic user interface guidelines
- Guidelines for designing user interface software, ESD-TR-86-278, August 1986, by Sidney L. Smith and Jane N. Mosier. This is the oldest (very detailed) guide
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Bibliography
- Lynch, Patrick, J and Sarah Horton (2009). Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300137378.