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Style Guide

by Faith 11. January 2010 15:00

Style Guide
	Provides a summary of the product or web standards that guide the User Experience team during development, including site design standards and page styles.


Answers the following questions: How can the client ensure online branding reflects offline standards? How will the client's company preferences for content be followed? How will the team document the standards developed and agreed upon?		Provides the following benefits: Sets specific standards aimed at supporting the client's brand and mission Provides a comprehensive documentation of standards for the client's site up front and throughout the process Promotes consistency, which in turn promotes quality, usability, and accessibility

This gude works as a foundation for all future development and ongoing efforts to unify the look and feel of applications that are in a future state of release or additional products or functions that may be added at a later date. By providing documented guidelines you can insure that your intranet, extranet, and corporate websites share a unilateral look and feel and any applications that your IT department adds can seamlessly blend into your enterprise.

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Style Guide

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5/22/2010 3:49:31 PM #

When I worked at PFSweb from 2001-2003 I had the experience of working with Hewlett Packard and becoming intimately familiar with their "Style Guide" entitled "HP SNF2." It was well over 200 pages long and precisely measured everything on the pages from: what colors could be used together on certain pages in certain instances. An entire team of 200 people were devoted to keeping this bible and checking everything released from a third party building any type of application for "HP compliance." It was one of the most daunting tasks I ever undertook, making a brand new application that abided by their guidelines. But within those guidelines I feel that I made an application that was superior to even what HP has customer facing today.

The application was to sell, Business to Business, large numbers of printers and routers. The application would allow HP to maintain a database of Businesses and give them, Silver, Gold and Platinum level discounts based on the number of printers they bought or exchanged for new each year. It also allowed HP to track the status of the businesses, if they were an Educational facility, or a Business, if their documentation were kept up to date accordingly. Schools were allotted discounts. By tracking the age of printers and routers they could offer programs to keep the latest greatest HP printers and routers in the institutions and businesses and offer those deals where they could "try before they buy."

Getting all of the requirements and building out a custom application that could pick, pack and ship the printers from the warehouse was quite an achievement.

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