How to Write an Effective Style Guide
For design teams that want to avoid inconsistencies in their user interfaces, “How to write an effective style guide” is a 1-day workshop that shows you how to develop a style guide for use within your organisation. Unlike theory-based courses, this workshop is grounded in the realities of user interface design and includes tried and tested techniques to manage compliance.
After attending this training course, you will be able to develop a style guide for use within your own organisation and learn techniques to manage compliance. (It's also one of the few seminars where you get the chance to build LEGO models!). This seminar is led by Dr. David Travis who has over 20 years experience in the field of user centred design.
"The interactivity and practical, real-life exercises, ensured it was ultra-relevant."
Duration
This is a one-day seminar.
You will learn how to
- Articulate inconsistencies in a user interface and show how these affect the usability of a system;
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Style Guides;
- Describe common misperceptions about Style Guides.
- Review the structure of some typical Style Guides, pointing out similarities and differences between them;
- Describe practical ways to ensure the Style Guide is adopted;
- Introduce checklists for compliance checking;
- Promote use of the style guide and manage compliance within your own organisation.
This seminar is aimed at
- Software engineers
- Business analysts
- Interface designers
- Project managers
- Marketing managers
- Website designers
- E-commerce developers
Price and availability
In-house seminar
We bring this course to you and run it for a fixed fee no matter where you are. Prices from £150/delegate + VAT (assuming 12 delegates).
To book an in-house seminar, phone us on 020 7917 9535, e-mail us at or use the fax back form in our brochure.
Vote for a public course
If you want us to run this seminar as a public course, just click on the button below. Once we get 8 like-minded individuals we'll organise a public course and let you know.
What delegates say about this seminar
- "The training was directly relevant, making it a great starting point for future development".
- "By the end of the workshop, we had a practical plan for developing a style guide".
- "We have created a skeleton document that we can now take away and develop. Thank you!"
Customisation
We can customise this seminar by developing a "boiler plate" table of contents for discussion and review. This encourages participants to specify what needs to be in the Style Guide and hence take ownership of it.
Money back guarantee
On completion of a public seminar, if you don't think that the training will help you do your job better, we will refund your registration fee in full.
More information
2008 Course Brochure, describing all our usability training seminars (pdf format, 796 Kb).
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