A collection of UI guidelines

[christina]

One of the primary resources for experts conducting Usability Evaluation or Design Reviews is intimate knowledge and familiarity with industry standard User Interface Design Guidelines.

General User Interface Design Style Guides

Apple Human Interface Guidelines (Mac OS X) Design Guidelines (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000894)

Apple User Experience Documentation (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/UserExperience.html)

Microsoft User Interface Guidelines (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/) (Click in the left tree on User Interface Design...)

Windows XP Guidelines (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/windowsxp/downloads/default.mspx)

Yale Web Style Guide (2nd Edition) (http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/)

Java Look and Feel Guidelines (version 1) (http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed1/dg/index.htm)

Java Look and Feel Guidelines version 2 (http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/)

Java Look and Feel Guidelines: Advanced Topics (http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/at/book/index.html)

IBM 3D design Guidelines (http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/580)

Silicon Graphics Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines (http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?coll=0530&db=bks&cmd=toc&pth=/SGI_Developer/UI_Glines)

Oracle Technology Network Guidelines (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/blaf/specs/index.html#topoftoc)

SUN OpenStep User Interface Guidelines (http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-2109)

Open Source Usability Guidelines

Motif Style Guide (http://w3.pppl.gov/misc/motif/MotifStyleGuide/en_US/TOC.html)

KDE User Interface Guidelines (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/index.html)

Gnome Human Interface Guidelines 1.0 (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/index.html)

Gnome Human Interface Guidelines 2.0 (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/)

Corporate User Interface Standards and Guidelines (samples)

Telstra Online Standards (http://www.telstra.com.au/standards/standards/standards_all.cfm)

Taligent Human Interface Guidelines (http://pcroot.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/HI/HI_1.html)

Ameritech Graphical User Interface Standards and Design Guidelines (http://web.archive.org/web/20010210130930/www.ameritech.com/corporate/testtown/library/standard/std-guix.html)

Government funded Usability Guidelines (American)

MITRE Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software (http://hcibib.org/sam/) (US Airforce)

Research based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html) (Dept. of Health and Human Services)

Cancer Institute evidence-based guidelines on web design and usability issues (http://usability.gov/guidelines/index.html)

NASA User Interface Guidelines (http://usability.gsfc.nasa.gov/use/Ug_96/)

Canadian Command Decision Aiding Technology (COMDAT) Operator-Machine Interface (OMI) Style Guide: Version 1.0 (http://www.drdc-rddc.dnd.ca/researchtech/projects/hsi/library/documents/comdat_style_guide_e.html)

Gaming Devices (J2ME games)

Games Usability Guidelines (http://forum.nokia.com/main/0,6566,23_30,00.html) from Nokia

Wireless and Mobile Usability Guidelines

Palm OS Design Guidelines (http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/UserInterface.html#979973)

Blackberry and RIM wireless handheld UI Developers Guide (http://www.blackberry.com/developers/na/c_plus/doc/sdk21/ui_engine_api_21.pdf) (PDF)

NTT DoCoMo imode service guideline (user interfaces (http://www.nttdocomo.com/corebiz/imode/why/guideline/guideline.html)

Generic user interface elements (http://portal.etsi.org/stfs/hf/STF231.asp) for mobile terminals and services

Web style guides

AT&T web style guides (http://www.att.com/style/)

GE Interactive Toolkit Version 1.0 (http://www.ge.com/brand/design_library/04_interactive/01_web/)

IBM Ease of Use Web design guidelines (http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/572)

SAP Design Guild (http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/resources.asp)

SAP Interaction Design Guide (http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/web_guidelines/index.htm) for Internet Application Components

Apple Web Design Guide (http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/docs/apple/web_design/web_design.html)

Carnegie Mellon Web Publishing Style Guide (http://www.cmu.edu/home/styleguide/)

The Library of Congress World Wide Web Style Guide (http://www.loc.gov/loc/webstyle/)

Florida State University web style guide (http://www.fsu.edu/~webguide/)

Other Platforms

IRIX庐 Interactive Desktop User Interface Guidelines (http://wwweic.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/computer/manual/lx/SGI_Developer/books/UI_Glines/sgi_html/)

IBM iSeries Navigator Software Interface Guidelines (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/navigator/guidelines/)

Accessibility Guidelines

Techniques for Web content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/)


I copied and pasted for more than an hour, then everything just dissapeared! So another one hour :???:

[imported_kyle]

thanks, christina

[christina]

Pleasure :)

[larry]

Great list Christina - thanks for putting that together!

I have a question regarding standards? We are in the middle of an effort to develop company user interface standards. It is a difficult task to complete while our small group is working on various IA and usability projects. I'm interested in hearing of the experiences of others who have been involved in writing standards documents. How long did it take? How many people worked on it? Were you working on other projects at the same time? Were you able to complete the standards? Do you feel it was a valuable exercise - are people using your standards?

Larry

[christina]

Just my experience... not necessarily right.

How long did it take?
Was a going on job in my previous company.
How many people worked on it?
About 2 or 3
Were you working on other projects at the same time?
Yes.
Were you able to complete the standards?
No....it seems that I can never finish it... :shock:
Do you feel it was a valuable exercise - are people using your standards?
Hmm...probably not. Designers were a bit reluctant to follow all standards when they are actually doing the design. Only some of them, which are probably common sense in a way were remembered.

[srini]

Thanks a Lot Chris

[eleanor]

Welcome Srini!

Sorry I took so long to notice you but I was away from the computer! Yes sometimes I am away from my computer and then I feel totally lost - especially when I want to look up flights or train times!