Sounds like you're riding a dark horse. There's no shortage of research based guidelines online. A few minutes with Google will get you guidelines galore. The research behind said guidelines is not as accessible, and is oft times tied specifically to content and platform specifics.
Are you doing something that has never been done before? It's very difficult to find research that can be applied universally without a significant leap of faith for adopters. I hope you're not in a situation where every granular enhancement has to be backed up with research and needing to "justify design". It's just too easy for those who require the "justify"ing to claim exceptions against the most exhaustive of guidelines collections. Believe me, I've been there. There are other activities that might help.. Competitive audits; gather design solutions from competitors and look for commonalities. Ask key decision maker(s) in your organization what specific solutions they've seen out there that would represent a baseline for design. For navigation structure it might be easiest to get consensus on how your content shares contextual similarities with what big players are using (even if the content type is dissimilar) and then go with what's ubiquitous. Regards, Dan ** Trust your designer, or find a designer you can trust. ** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46977 ________________________________________________________________ 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
