Sunday, April 19, 2009

Writing a Style Guide

The article 'Writing an Interface Style Guide' provided a lot of valuable information. I even liked the first definition of what type of information a style guide should contain:
Like the interface itself, a great design style guide should be straightforward, intuitive, and informative. It should provide detailed information, yet be clear and concise.


Even some basic pieces of advice, such as including standard image sizes, seemed profound. I also appreciated that the author went into great detail providing examples of what to include in youe style guide, for instance, when talking about images again:
Show how they may be styled and aligned, and how captions should appear (if used).

The author provided very specific examples, just in case the reader decided to use some of these specific ideas.

Images were not the only things the author talked about though, they provided quite a few examples which could come in handy for me when I am creating my style guide for my final project.

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