Style Guides
Android | Apple | BlackBerry | GNOME | IBM | Microsoft | Oracle | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
By Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience, SAP AG – Updated: July 5, 2012
Here were list style guides from external companies and organizations for your reference. If available, we also include links to the UX teams or at least information about them.
Please note that the links may be outdated soon.
Android
Developer Platform
Designer Section
Apple
Developer Platform
OS X
- Apple Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines (online version; PDF version)
- User Experience Guidelines (part of it)
- Mac Dev Center (may not work)
- Mac OS X Developer Library
iOS
- Apple Mac iOS Human Interface Guidelines (online version; PDF version)
- User Experience Guidelines (part of it)
- iOS Dev Center (may not work)
- iOS Developer Library
BlackBerry
Smartphone Guidelines
- BlackBerry Smartphones - UI Guidelines 6.0 (online Version; PDF version)
GNOME
The GNOME Usability Project (Linux)
- GNOME
Human Interface Guidelines 2.2 (Online version)
(Part of the GNOME Documentation Library)
IBM
IBM Design Team and Resources
Microsoft
Developer Network
Dev Center - Desktop
Dev Center - Metro Style Apps
Dev Center - Windows Phone
Oracle
- Oracle Usable Apps | Application User Experience Website
- Design Patterns and Guidelines for Oracle Applications
- Oracle's Team: The Applications User Experience Group
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
- Website (Online version)
- Entire Guidelines Book (PDF version; 21 MB)
