Hi, Stephen! If you'd ask me, quality of the web-service based on the use of patterns will be only as good as the patterns are; but better use some kind of "standard" than no standard at all!
If you really want to stick the word "standard", the only one that comes to my mind now is the ISO 13 407 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=21197) which establish Human-centred design processes for interactive systems; my guess that right now, it only set standards for the process of the designing interactive systems, not to the interactions themselves... but I could be wrong (anybody else care to chime in?) Anyway, last I heard the sub-committee of the International Standards Organisation ISO was looking in the better defining the standards (http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4636.asp)... let's wait and see! { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by carefully structuring, contextualizing, and presenting data and information mobile ::: 86 13671503252 website ::: http://designative.info/ aim ::: itamarlmedeiros skype ::: designative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37385 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
