Question:

The best user interface design guidelines are guidelines that given high level and widely applicable principles. A set of such guidelines is as follows:

(i) Know the user population
(ii) Engineer for errors
(iii) Reduce cognitive load
(iv) Maintain consistency and clarity
(v) Relevance
(vi) Naturalness
(vii) Supportiveness
(viii) Flexibility
(ix) Escape
(x) Default

Consider you are working for an IT company where you have been entrusted with the responsibility of designing a website for Setting Sun Hotel which is a beach resort situated at Flic-en-Flac.

(a) Describe the implication of each of the above high level design guidelines to the design of this website.

(b) Your website will normally include some form-filling by the user. State five form-filling principles which according to you are important to the design of Setting Sun Hotel website.