What is the Problem?

Web Design Guidelines

  • some individual guidelines pages are well-organized and helpful
  • taken collectively the accumulated guidelines are --
    • overwhelming,
    • redundant,
    • context-free,
    • confusing,
    • sometimes contradictory, and
    • occasionally erroneous.


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AMTEC 1997 Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Elizabeth Boling, Barbara Bichelmeyer, Kurt Squire, Sonny Kirkley
Indiana University
Last updated 1 June 1997