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Main rules of IBM design, digest form official webpage
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The most compelling design solutions are ones that are simple, natural to use, and completely in tune with users’ needs and experiences. Achieving these solutions in the design of technology products and e-business applications requires building a multi-disciplinary team, tapping resources such as published research, guidelines, standards, and involving users throughout the design process. Here we present a number of processes and provide resources for achieving compelling designs.
Design concepts
Learn the users’ bill of rights, the principles that drive successful user interface design, and how to use models to design for Ease of Use.
Web guidelines
Understand the process in creating a positive Web site experience for visitors and read guidelines about how organizations can create easy-to-use Web interfaces.
Style guidelines
Guidelines that provide consistency of Style for IBM information. The guidelines cover all areas of the business: hardware, software, mainframe, workstation, and more.
Admin guidelines
Discover principles and guidelines that govern the design and production of user interfaces for IBM network-based products.
OOBE guidelines
Review guidelines on how software and hardware companies can design a positive out-of-box experience which is productive and satisfying for the user.
OVID methodology
Objects, views, and interaction design is a formal methodology for designing the user experience based on the analysis of users’ goals and tasks.
Exploratory UI design
Examples of interface ideas that extend beyond the traditional graphical user interface (GUI) models and explores the use of realistic objects and places in user-interface design.
Recommended books
Literature in the fields of user interface design, visual design, information design, and technology design (including software, hardware and the Internet).
