ISO 13407 - Human-Centred Design Processes for Interactive Systems
ISO 9241 - Ergonomic Requirements for Office Work with Visual Display Terminals
Part 1: General introduction
Part 2: Guidance on task requirements
Part 3: Visual display requirements
Part 4: Keyboard requirements
Part 5: Workstation layout and postural requirements
Part 6: Guidance on the work environment
Part 7: Requirements for display with reflections
Part 8: Requirements for displayed colours
Part 9: Requirements for non-keyboard input devices
Part 10: Dialogue principles
Part 11: Guidance on usability
Part 12: Presentation of information
Part 13: User guidance
Part 14: Menu dialogues
Part 15: Command dialogues
Part 16: Direct-manipulation dialogues
Part 17: Form filling dialogues
ISO/IEC 11581 - Icon Symbols and Functions
ANSI/HFES 100-1988 - Human Factors Engineering of Visual Display Terminal Workstations
http://www.hfes.org/Publications/ANSI-HFS-100.html
ANSI/HFES-200-199x - Ergonomic Requirements for Software User Interfaces
MIL-STD 1472D - Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems Equipment and Facilities
http://tecnet0.jcte.jcs.mil:9000/htdocs/teinfo/directives/soft/humeng.html
IBM's involvement in user interface standardization (includes brief descriptions of these standards)
IBM User Interface Design Principles
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/hci/guidelines/design/principles.html
Microsoft User Interface Guidelines
http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/uiguide/
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html
Ameritech Web Page User Interface Standards and Design
Guidelines
http://www.ameritech.com:1080/corporate/testtown/library/standard/web_guidelines/index.html
Bandwidth Conservation Society
http://www.infohiway.com/faster/index.html
Guidelines for developing fast, small graphics, including an interactive comparison
of different file formats.
IBM HCI Web Design Guidelines
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/hci/guidelines/web/web_design.html
Sun Guide to Web Style
http://www.usec.sun.com/styleguide/
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
American Psychological Association Style Guide
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/soc/fallen/apacrib.htm
Links to several different resources for APA style and citation rules
Good Documents
http://www.gooddocuments.com/
A web-site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked,
on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet from Dan Bricklin and Trellix.
Taligent Style Guide
http://hpsalo.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/SG/SG_1.html
W3C Style Guide for Writing Online Documents
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Introduction.html
These guidelines were written for a specific corporate or government environment, though they may also be examples of good general guidelines.
Ameritech Graphical User Interface Standards and Design Guidelines http://www.ameritech.com:1080/corporate/testtown/library/standard/std-guix.html
Department of the Navy Application and Interface Guidelines
http://www.nismc.navy.mil/cio/cfas/ape-ui.htm
DOD HCI Style Guide Version 3.0
http://www-library.itsi.disa.mil/org/dod_std/dod_hci_sg_v3_0.html
User-Interface Guidelines for the Goddard Space Flight
Center
http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/Code_520/Code_522/Documents/UG_96/
DStan Corporate Web Site
http://www.dstan.mod.uk/
Some guides address a specific type of application. While they may include general design principles they document the application of those principles in a limited set of interfaces.
Ameritech phone-based user interface standards and design
guidelines
http://www.ameritech.com:1080/corporate/testtown/library/standard/std-pbix.html
The Ameritech telephony application guide includes not only visual interface
and widget design but application behavior and error handling.
Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) Core
System (ECS)
http://edhs1.gsfc.nasa.gov/waisdata/docsw/html/td4100103.html
This is an example of a style guide intended to ensure consistency across a
group of similar applications written in a single development environment. It
is available only for download as a PDF or PostScript file.
IBM RealThings Design Guidelines
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/hci/guidelines/design/realthings/index.html
These design guidelines document the work of an IBM group in creating software
interfaces that mimic physical objects such as telephones.
All of these guides provide guidance to developers working in a specific toolkit. Because they are written by the toolkit vendor, they are as much suggested practice as development rules.
Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines
http://autarch.loni.ucla.edu/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/SGI_Developer/UI_Glines/@Generic__BookView;td=2
Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/dg/index.htm
Java - Swing Guidelines
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/swingdoc-static/intro.html
(general information)
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/swingdoc-current/jlf.html#
(look and feel)
Lotus Notes Best Practices Guide
http://www.lotus.com/partners/bpg.nsf
Taligent Human Interface Guidelines
http://hpsalo.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/HI/HI_1.html
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