Do guidelines work?

Many guidelines exist, but relatively few validation studies

Study by Kirakowski & Cierlik (1998) address this issue

In their study of two web site development projects, 3 locally administered summative measures used:

‘Relative User Efficiency’ (RUE)
‘Subjective Cognitive Effort’ (SMEQ)
Established web guidelines

Questionnaire devised based on interviews with:

Users
Web page designers
Web masters