watch out for when the company doesn't have the resources ($ or people) or insight to actually do interaction design in each application, but instead asks for a "manual" or style guide. The technologists/CTO will usually ask for this in his naive view that if there was a guide, then he could have every developer make easy to use products that all fit the corporate brand.
the best you can do is present some visual design guidelines and some brand rules, and maybe some overarching patterns. however, one of your tasks is to make them realize that designing cohesive applications in a large space is not paint-by-numbers it requires designers. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Brandon Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked to develop a UI strategy to be implemented across our > IT department for all our custom developed applications as well as > user facing vendor systems such as peoplesoft, microsoft dynamics, > and several others. > > I'm a rookie web developer and UI guy that is transitioning into a > IxD/UX role and this is my first large scale project of this nature. > Can anyone provide some advice on how to start, what to consider, and > things to watch out for? > > > Thanks, > Brandon > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
