SAP DESIGN GUILD

Style Guides

Apple | GNOME | IBM | Java | Macromedia | Microsoft | Oracle | OSF/Motif | Sun

By Heinz Willumeit, Usability Engineering Center – Last update 03/19/2007

Several important sets of style guides are listed here. When the style guides are available free of cost online, the corresponding link is provided. When the style guides are not available for free, related links are provided.

Apple

Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

   

Apple Computer, Inc.
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

 

GNOME

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GNOME Human Interface Guidelines

   

The GNOME Usability Project (Linux)

 

IBM

IBM Interface Design Books

IBM Interface Design Books

   

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

 

Java

JavaTM Look and Feel Design Guidelines

   

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
JavaTM Look and Feel Design Guidelines, second edition

 

Macromedia

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Macromedia Flex

   

Macromedia
Macromedia Flex

 

Microsoft

Microsoft Windows XP Visual Guidelines

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

   

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

 

Oracle

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Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines

   

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

 

OSF/Motif

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

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

   

Open Software Foundation
OSF/Motif Style Guide. Revision 1.2

 

Sun

SUN Open Look : Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines

Sun Open Look: Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines

   

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

 

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