The Place for Standards in Interaction Design (IxD) and UI Design (UID)
http://www.uigarden.net/english/The-Place-for-Standards-in-IxD-and-UID

Malouf, David Heller
uiGarden
2006

Abstract:

'Standards': the word strikes fear in designers around the globe, and makes engineers lives so much easier that they bow at its alter. (Yes, this is an exaggeration for affect, but an important one.) But before we can dig a big deeper into standards for designers, we need to do some definition work.