User interface guidelines were developed for Los Alamos National Laboratory information systems to satisfy several needs: (1) to provide users with consistency between systems, (2) to provide programmers with the tools that they needed to speed the development process, and (3) to distill existing knowledge in the literature regarding effective user system interface design and target it specifically to our hardware, software, applications, and user populations. The significance of the guidelines lies in the development and implementation processes used. The guidelines are flexible and subject to frequent revision, yet have resulted in a significant increase in consistency from subsystem to subsystem.
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