Artifact: User-Interface Guidelines
 User-Interface Guidelines |
Project-specific guidelines on how to create the user interface. |
| Worker: | User-Interface Designer |
| More information: | Guidelines: User Interface (General) |
| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: |
Purpose
The following people use the user-interface guidelines:
- user-interface designers, when they model and prototype the user interface;
- designers and implementers, when they implement the user interface.
Properties
The user-interface guidelines should give project-specific rules and recommendations for building the user interface, if needed. This is important if an extensive part of the system is dependent on the user interface, and if usability is being emphasized.
These guidelines can also refer to external publications, such as The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design, by Microsoft« Corporation.
Timing
The User-Interface Guidelines are created early in the Inception Phase.
Responsibility
A user-interface designer is responsible for the integrity of the user-interface guidelines, ensuring that they fulfill the needs of the project.
Tailoring
The user-interface guidelines should be tailored to support the needs of the project.
