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Graphical Design Standards

Before identifying application standards, everyone involved should give careful thought to how an application should behave. You should discuss window appearance and how to implement common functions like adding, changing, or deleting database records.

Consistent application behavior will reduce training time and user errors. It will also decrease development and maintenance time and cost.

The standards committee should discuss these topics and understand how GUI issues affect the standards: