Hot answers tagged style-guide
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You're essentially asking how to design an pamphlet to interrupt someone's attention and get them to read something that they aren't interested in. The answer is that you shouldn't. It's poor UX.
If you want people to read a pamphlet, however there are a few things that you can do (outside of the design of the pamphlet) to increase that possibility:
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I prefer 'Sentence case' over 'Title Case' because sentence case respects the difference between proper nouns and the other words.
I always thought that it was customary in English.
In Spanish it is not, we use sentence case, like this traditional argentine newspaper does.
This traditional USA newspaper uses Title Case instead.
These are language ...
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Would Yahoo! style guide work for you?
Here's a few others:
Web Style Guide 3.0
Netflex Style Guide
Skype Brand Book
WebEx Brand Style Guide
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I dont think this is specific to UX. This is actually a question of knowledge management. There is a whole ecosystem of people/products/services for this kind of thing.
Software like Wikis like Confluence, SharePoint, MadCap Flare, Salesforce Sites, Google Docs all are viable options. It depends on your security (and other) requirements.
Google: ...
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Web app style guides are very rare... I've found by a research some time ago a good style guide for web apps. Hope it helps.
http://developers.sun.com/docs/web-app-guidelines/uispec4_0/01-introduction.html
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Working on a styleguide now. It's in HTML, running on a local server. There are several reasons for rendering it on the web:
1. It's very easy to share, navigate and search.
2. You can see interactions and behaviors as they will appear to users.
3. Code snippets -- a styleguide isn't much use to developers, unless you provide the .css, .js and .htm files ...
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I agree with Aviva Rosenstein that you have to design your deliverables just like you design your projects, by asking questions like:
Who's the target audience?
What are their needs?
What needs to be communicated?
What are their goals?
For me, I'm increasingly trying to influence our team of developers to adopt best practices/corporate standards. ...
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What you call visual elements are really just the parts that are unique to one application vs. another. The logo, color scheme, and icons are most often unique elements that have to fit into, and often determine to an extent, the style of the website.
UI elements are just building blocks that can be used and which are expected to be well known to people ...
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For annotating the mockups, it's good to use a tool like specctr, but anything which gives you a new layer is fine.
You mentioned that fireworks is not part of your toolset right now (it's a very nice tool), well, specctr is expected to have a photoshop version sooner or later, but on the other side, it's a matter of a few lines. Tools like Microsoft ...
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I usually use Axure to create UX related documents. It allows you to generate a website very easily and you can also show interactivity of the UI to demonstrate a certain interaction pattern. Everyone can easily access the website and you can also provide a link to a specific page on the site if you want to communicate some specific area. Having an ...
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