It's almost inevitable, when products are developed by different teams, for them to drift away from consistency. For a variety of reasons, this turns out to be a very difficult problem to solve.
Teams often have good reasons for design choices they've made.
Sometimes, you have to choose a less usable solution for one product in order to ensure consistency across the product line. But how and when to make this choice can be quite painful. The purpose of this workshop is to get experienced practitioners together to have them share their experiences trying to solve the Common Look and Feel problem at their company. Through discussion and analysis of case studies from various companies, we'll attempt to describe a set of best practices that distinguish successful attempts to reach consistency across a product line. What we'll do during the workshop During the day we will choose three focus areas for discussion.