---
title: "consistency-and-standards"
aliases: Consistency And Standards
tags: 
- info203
---

![](https://i.imgur.com/H8rlxo7.png)

good and bad
- standards (user interface guidelines) are always chaning

differ between platforms
evolve over time

e.g., menus

![](https://i.imgur.com/IfaMADw.png)
![](https://i.imgur.com/HqYzadh.png)

general look of webpages  evolves over time

### 1.1 Naming and teminology

![](https://i.imgur.com/3PwEOmn.png)

this is bad
you can ask users which categories they understand/know about 

### 1.2 Data loss
![](https://i.imgur.com/23IxWiN.png)

standard to minimise loss