Launched by Canon, Ricoh, and Fuji Xerox in the 1st SICE Symposium on Usability Research and Evaluation under the theme of a consistent user interface for copying machines.

Presented "User-oriented User Interfaces of Office Automation Equipments" in the 10th SICE Symposium on Usability Research and Evaluation by Canon, Ricoh, Fuji Xerox, and the University of Tsukuba. Supported by NTT Advanced Technology Corporation.

The activities and achievements so far were organized as"CRX Project User Interface Guidelines Ver.1.0". Ver.1.0 was revised in May 1998 and July 1998 as Ver.1.1 and Ver.1.2. Ver.1.2 was distributed to Japan Business Machine Industry Association (present JBMIA: Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association) and other associations in October 1998.

Presented the achievements at the conference of Japan Ergonomics Society

Presented the achievements at the conference of JBMA.

Presented the achievements at Technical Communication Symposium 1997 held by Japan Technical Communicators Association.

Created and distributed brochures introducing the CRX Project.

Published the revised version, "CRX Project User Interface Guidelines Ver.2.0".

The CRX Project applied for Good Design Award 1999 as a part of the activity for a consistent user interface in the industry, and obtained the G-Mark.

With the expansion of the theme to computer devices, Seiko Epson joined the project.

The CRX website was established, providing free download service of the Guidelines.

Created and distributed posters to the industry and educational institutions to inform the CRX's concepts of universal design.

The standardization of UI terminologies was presented at Technical Communication Symposium 2001.

Held CRX Forum 2001 to report on the achievements of the activities so far and to determine the future course of activities. Invited guests from various sectors of society for the panel discussion. Published the revised brochures introducing the CRX Project for the Forum.

Released and distributed "CRX Project User Interface Guidelines Ver.3.0" on the website.

Presented the outline of the activities at the Conference of Japan Ergonomics Society Kanto Branch.

As a part of activity of Result Evaluation WG, MFP of each company was put together.  Designers from the four CRX companies were able to compare usability by touching actual products.

It was relaunched to deal with user screen readers for home page of CRX Project.

It was conducted Usability Evaluation to general users as Result Verification WG.
It was evaluated UI consistency between products of the four CRX companies.

Revised version of CRX User Interface Guidelines Ver.3.1 was published.

Design Shared to quest possibility of CRX Project was convened.  Designers of three companies apart from companies dealing with office products were invited.  Each of them provided presentation, which was focused on “Usability and Formative” based on their products.

CRX User Interface Guidelines Ver.3.2 was published.

After reviewing the whole page contexture, CRX User Interface Guidelines Ver.4.0 was published.

Future of the project and aspect of its activities were discussed in free style by the four CRX companies.

Activities and issues of CRX Project in the past 10 years and MFP Panel WG were presented as case example of 2005.

CRX User Interface Guidelines Ver.4.0 in English was published.

CRX activity as case example of Universal Design was presented at The 2nd International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto 2006.

The meeting was held to report evaluation result by users who have long-term experience to use printers of CRX companies at their offices.

Introduced activity of each GW and case example of design development by each company.

The workshop in training style by external experts was conducted, which as focused on a purpose of communication and stimulation for each CRX participant.

It was about leaning communication of UI design by experienced-base, relating with previous year’s Workshop between CRX companies.

Information regarding formulation of CRX Guidelines, its background and operation were shared with “Association For Electric Home Appliances”.

Each company introduced case example of product design and its management.

It was conducted to improve communication between designers.  They had free discussion about visiting each show room.

The 2nd workshop in training style by external experts was conducted, which was focused on a purpose of communication and stimulation for each CRX participant.