Apple Human Interface Guidelines
The Apple Desktop Interface
Addison Wesley, 1987
162 pages
0-2011-7753-6

This is the third edition of guidelines for creating interfaces with Macintosh GUI, published in mid-1988. It has been superceded many times. The updated Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines book was released in 1992, then the guidelines were made available freely on the website as PDF, updated to Mac OS X (as Aqua Human Interface Guidelines), and eventually made compliant with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, renamed again to Apple Human Interface Guidelines. When compared to this PDF, the original book seems surprisingly short and simple, but that’s just signum temporis, as GUIs back then were also unsophisticated. And that – looking at the recipes and foundations of the initial versions of the first popular GUI, and comparing them with the contemporary interfaces – seems its only use today.

Similar books:

	Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

The following paragraphs are quoted verbatim from the back cover:

Created by the people at Apple Computer, this is the definitive guide to the Apple Desktop Interface – the graphics-based “windows and menus” interface first made popular on the Macintosh® computer. This book is for everyone who wants to implement the Apple Desktop Interface on any Macintosh or Apple II computer.

It includes the following topics:

	The philosophy and history behind the Apple Desktop Interface.
	The design principles and metaphors upon which the interface is based.
	Detailed specifications for how the elements of the interface should work – how to use the windows, menus, dialog boxes, and controls that make up the Apple Desktop Interface.
	How to integrate color and sound into the interface.
	Guidelines on designing for international markets and for handicapped users.

About the cover: This design represents a new look for the original edition of Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface and the other books in the Apple Technical Library. The contents have not been changed.”