转载:如何创建一个更好的规范
作者简介:Whitney Quesenbery 是一位用户界面设计者以及可用性专家。她与世界各地的公司合作获得了优胜网站,网站和软件应用等奖项。作为 UPA 评判和可用性项目的主管,她被任命为美国政府在评判系统标准问题上的顾问委员会的委员。 Whitney 还担任着美国 UPA 主席的职务。
1. Building a Better Style Guide
1.1. ABSTRACT(摘要)
Why are style guides so frequently created, but so rarely successful? All too often, businesses ask for a style guide as a means to create a common look and feel, in the belief that it will solve usability problems and establish consistency between applications – only to be disappointed in the results. Even if such a style guide is followed carefully, the resulting interfaces may not meet usability goals.. This paper explores strategies for creating a style guide that is more than a simplistic rules book. By making the style guide part of the process, it can be used to promote a shared vision, to help the product meet business and usability requirements for consistency and…it may actually be used.
为什么规范如此频繁的被创建,但却很少成功的?时常企业创建一个规范的目的是能够创建一致的样子和操作习惯,并且希望透过规范来解决易用性方面的问题并且能够建立不同产品之间的一致性,但结果却是让人失望。即使规范被严格的遵循,结果却是界面的样式与易用性的目标相违背。这篇文章讨论的就是如何让规范不仅仅是一个规范手册。让规范融入到开发过程中,用于提升可视的共享(a shared vision?),让产品与商业需求和易用性要求相结合等等。让它真正的被使用。 继续阅读 »

