Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Understand The Webdesign Standards

Webdesign must always comply to a set of standards and rules, defined by by national or international bodies, such as the International Organization for Standardization. Such a standard states for example that: ‘Incompleteness of theories underlying the design of interactive software makes it difficult to produce authoritative and specific standards’. (ISO 2002:3) As you can see for yourself, these standards are only general guidelines, which can be used in one stage or another of the design process for a specific website. As a general rule, the more abstract the guideline, the more suitable it is in informing the earlier stages of design such as the requirements specification. Detailed design needs more specific guidelines, such as ‘Apple Human Interface Guide View the rest of this article


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