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If you have more
than 1 or 2 people building the product, you need a Design Standard, also known as a Style
Guide. Without a Style Guide everyone will do something different.
Although that is not necessarily a disaster, it will be more expensive to fix later on. |
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The Design
Standard should define what the product will look like:
In short how the Branding will be applied. |
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But it should also define:
In short how the user will interact with the product. |
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A typical Design Standard is about 30 to 40 pages long. Any more and it begins to become unreadable. An alternative is to build an Internal Web Site that does the same job. | 30 to 40 pages | ||||||||||||||||||
A typical content
list for a design standard might include:
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