Difficulties in Using Style Guides for Designing User Interfaces
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In [16] it was investigated how one can work with style guides called “UI guidelines” in this article when designing user interfaces in commercial software development. The document explained what aspects style guides deal with on an abstract and a specific level related to the development process and the software product. During this research various problems related to the use of style guides were encountered. These problems and possible solutions or at least part solutions shall be presented here. 1 Usability Problems with Style Guides The usability problems that arise with using style guides are numerous. Some papers [2,8,9,10,13,14,15] deal with these problems. The problems can mainly be divided into two groups: Problems with the contents of a style guide and problems with handling the document. Especially [2] delivers many common different reasons why style guides fail. Also [15] contains a list of difficulties related to style guides. In general terms one of their difficulties is insufficiency, although their necessity is not questioned. 1.1 Problems with the
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