onstration, automatic user-interface SIG HighlightsThis article reports on a Special Interest Group meeting held at CHI '94, Boston; to discuss the past, present, and future of "Tools for Working with Guidelines". Though working with guidelines has gained today more common practice than in the past, it is still not always obvious which methods can be effectively used for managing guidelines during the whole development life-cycle of an interactive application. Moreover, it is not clear which kind of tools could be made available to designers for helping them in the process.This SIG focused on existing and planned tools for working with guidelines and related computer-aided activities involv-