Style Guides

Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

Apple Computer, Inc.
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

• Apple Developer Connection: Documentation
  • User Experience Documentation
  • Apple Human Interface Guidelines (OS X)
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Eclipse Wiki
User Interface Guidelines

Eclipse
User Interface Guidelines

• Version 2.1 (Online version; working draft; version 2.1 is the base with 3.x updates; November 2007)
• Eclipse Wiki (Main Page)

GNOME Human Interface Guidelines

The GNOME Usability Project (Linux)

• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2 (Online version)
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0 (PDF version)

(Part of the GNOME Documentation Library)

IBM Interface Design Books

IBM Corporation
Object-Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access Guidelines

• IBM's Ease of Use Website
• IBM User Interface Architecture: Principles and Guidelines for a User-Centered Design for IBM Network-Based Products
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Java^TM Look and Feel Design Guidelines

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Java^TM Look and Feel Design Guidelines, second edition

• Complete Guidelines
• Amazon.com

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Macromedia Flex

Macromedia
Macromedia Flex

• Flex Samples Explorer
• Flex Developer Center
• Flex Application Examples

The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide

Microsoft Corporation
The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide

• Microsoft: User Interface Design and Development
• The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide
  Amazon.com

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Windows (Vista) User Experience Interaction Guidelines

Microsoft Corporation
Windows (Vista) User Experience Interaction Guidelines

• As part of the MSDN library
• As downloadable PDF version (ca. 39 MB!)

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Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines

Oracle
Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines (2004)

• Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines (2004)
• BLAF Guideline Specifications

OSF/Motif Style Guide: Revision 1.2 (For OSF/Motif Release 1.2)

Open Software Foundation
OSF/Motif Style Guide. Revision 1.2

• Complete Style Guide (no longer available)
• DECwindows Companion to the OSF/Motif Style Guide (Supplement to the OSF/Motif Style Guide)
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Sun Open Look: Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines

Sun Microsystems Inc.
Open Look: Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines

• OpenStep User Interface Guidelines
• Amazon.com (Open Look)

Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines

Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines

• No Frames version (V. 1.0.2, 1999)
• Frames version (V. 1.0.2, 1999)

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

• Website (Online version)
• Entire Guidelines Book (PDF version; 161 MB)