Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Author: Apple
Publisher: Apple
Type: Misc
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Year: 1987

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What is Apple Human Interface Guidelines?

These are the "rules" for making Apple software behave the way an Apple user should expect.

The 1992 and 1995 editions focuses entirely on the Apple Desktop Interface for Mac.

The 1987 edition defines guidelines for the Apple Desktop Interface for both Macintosh and Apple II computers. It is the last edition to refer to the Apple II.

The 1985 edition is a pre-release version for the Apple IIe.

The 1982 edition is a set of software design guidelines for making Apple II software. It predates the Apple Lisa so there is no mention of a GUI. It focuses on honesty and consistent design across other software.

 

Download file #7 was sourced from https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines and contains the following PDFs, some of which are duplicates of what was already on this page:

  • 1980 Lisa UI Standards.pdf
  • 1982 Apple IIe Design Guidelines.pdf
  • 1983 Lisa UI Guidelines.pdf
  • 1985 Apple II Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 1986-07 Human Interface Guidelines (Second Beta Draft).pdf
  • 1986-12 Human Interface Guidelines (Final Draft).pdf
  • 1987 Apple Human Interface Guidelines - The Apple Desktop Interface.pdf
  • 1992 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 1993 NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines - Release 3.pdf
  • 1995 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 1996 Human Interface Guidelines for Mac OS 8 (WWDC Release).pdf
  • 1996 Newton 2.0 User Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 1997 Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2000 Adopting the Aqua Interface.pdf
  • 2001 Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (Preliminary).pdf
  • 2001 Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2002 Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2004-05 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2004-08 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2005-09 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2005-12 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2006-05 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2006-10 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2008-01 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2008-06 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2009 Apple Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2010 iOS Human Interface Guidelines.epub
  • 2011 iOS Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2012 OS X Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2013 OS X Human Interface Guidelines.pdf
  • 2014 iOS Human Interface Guidelines.pdf

 


Download Apple Human Interface Guidelines

osx_hi_guidelines.pdf
(13.65 MiB / 14.31 MB)
Mac OS X - Human Interface Guidelines - 2005
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apple_HIGuidelines.pdf
(7.61 MiB / 7.98 MB)
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines - 1995
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Apple_HIGuidelines_1992.pdf
(3.8 MiB / 3.98 MB)
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines - 1992
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Apple_HIGuidelines_1987.pdf
(11.3 MiB / 11.85 MB)
Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface - 1987
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Apple_II_HIGuidelines_1985.pdf
(9.27 MiB / 9.72 MB)
The Apple II Human Interface Guidelines - 1985
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Apple_IIe_Design_Guidelines_1982.pdf
(14.47 MiB / 15.17 MB)
Apple IIe Design Guidelines - 1982
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apple-human-interface-guidelines-main.zip
(334.13 MiB / 350.36 MB)
gingerbeardman's GitHub archive as of 2024-10-01 / Zipped
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