Web Application UI Guidelines?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 15, 2002 @07:04PM from the making-useful-web-GUIs dept.

Tom Davies asks: "Every GUI platform has a document which describes the conventions developers should use when building GUIs with that toolset. There are also lots of good resources for Web site usability (e.g. Jakob Nielsen's useit.com). But what about web -applications-? I am developing an intranet application which is aimed at people who use it every day, not those who stumble on a web site and need to be able to use it immediately. It can have a higher learning curve, but must deliver more 'client/server like' usability. Are there any sites/books which address how to make HTML GUIs for applications?"

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2nd Post! A few resources for you... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-15 19:14 · Score: 5, Informative

Check here, though admittedly you have to wonder about the GUI skills of someone who makes you click "Next" 10 times to read their thoughts. It's a decent paper, though, and cites numerous references.

And here is a decent but damned expensive book on the topic. Fortunately, a couple of the P2P application developers are good at GUI design and have made it quite easy to locate this book in PDF eBook format...