HHS Web Guidelines Created With Designers, Users in Mind

web design guidelines from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

[KeithDouglas]

From The Washington Post, Federal Diary, Tuesday, October 28, 2003 [washingtonpost.com ]:

After two years of research -- including observations of people at computers trying to find information -- HHS has published 187 guidelines for effective Web design and organization of material.

The article includes a link to a PDF files of the HHS "Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines" - [usability.gov ]

[davidpbrown]

Excellent but how ironic it's in PDF.

[Chris_R]

That is the best thing I have seen in a long time. Have only had a chance to browse it, but this could eaisly be one of the best 10 documents on the web for webmasters.

Rankingd for strength of evidence AND relative importance of everything they discuss.

[RonPK]

Looks impressive. There's an HTML version as well, at [usability.gov...]