Human Interface Guidelines

W When you have to design an application for popular consumer electronics devices, typically they will have and provide you with their human interface guidelines. These guidelines are frameworks in which you are able to design your product within and be in compliance with the rules of that particular device. Some are more constraining than others. Sometimes you can design within the parameters and still keep the feel of your brand and product. Other times the guidelines are so restrictive that almost every product on that particular device ends of looking and feeling the same.