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Making guidelines part of the team

Tanya Rabourn has written an article on the use of guidelines. To quote:

Guidelines. We seem to have a love-hate relationship with them. At the same time we construct them, we worry they’ll come back to haunt us. How did guidelines get such a bad reputation? On the whole they're usually a sincere attempt to capture valuable knowledge or provide instruction to the less experienced. Implicit within efforts (such as Boxes and Arrows) is the development of guidelines, and that’s a good thing. Guidelines themselves aren't the problem; it’s their misapplication that is.

Posted by jamesr on April 10, 2004 01:08 PM
Categories: Design & usability guidelines