Consulting
Design Principle & Guideline Reviews
You have an existing product, prototype, design proposal, or spec and would like to make sure that it conforms to common design principles and guidelines. Doing so will help make your product feel “intuitive” by being easy to understand and consistent with software standards, feeling simple and natural, and meeting user expectations. Following design principles and guidelines makes your experience stand out while fitting in.
Who better to review your product for guidelines compliance than the person who wrote them?
Scope
While we can review your design to address any specific concerns you have, we recommend looking for guideline and design principle problems in the following areas:
Controls
- Control selection
- Control usage
Commands
- Menu bars, toolbars, context menus
- Ribbons
Text
- UI text
- Style and tone
- Personality
- Help content
Messages
- Error messages
- Warning messages
- Confirmations
Interaction
- Keyboard (including shortcuts)
- Mouse and pointers
- Direct manipulation
- Forgiveness
- Touch and pen
- Accessibility
Windows and pages
- Windows
- Pages
- Dialog boxes
Tasks
- Page flows
- Wizards
Visuals
- Layout, alignment, focus, visual hierarchy
- Fonts
- Colors
- Icons and graphics
- Animations and transitions
Other
- Performance and responsiveness
Deliverables
A report with an overall impression of the product, along with a complete list of any problems found with their priority and recommended solution. Often the best way to illustrate guideline problems is with “guideline makeovers”—showing the before and after designs. We recommend wrapping the design review with a conference call to discuss the results.
Contact
For more information, please contact consulting@uxdesignedge.com.
