Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines 1992
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines is Apple Computer's 1992 book on how Macintosh applications should look and behave, published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-62216-5; first printing November 1992).[1] The Library of Congress record gives xxiii, 384 pages.[2] The scan here is 398 PDF pages.
Part 1 sets out Apple's design principles (metaphors, direct manipulation, see-and-point, consistency, WYSIWYG, user control, feedback and dialog, forgiveness, perceived stability, aesthetic integrity, modelessness) and general considerations such as worldwide compatibility, universal access and collaborative computing. Part 2 specifies the interface elements: menus, windows, dialog boxes, controls, icons, colour, behaviours and language. The appendices list resources and a bibliography, and give a design checklist.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers as printed in the contents.[3]
| Part | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Preface: About This Book | xxi | |
| Part 1 | Fundamentals | 1 |
| 1 | Human Interface Principles | 3 |
| 2 | General Design Considerations | 15 |
| 3 | Human Interface Design and the Development Process | 33 |
| Part 2 | The Interface Elements | 47 |
| 4 | Menus | 49 |
| 5 | Windows | 131 |
| 6 | Dialog Boxes | 175 |
| 7 | Controls | 203 |
| 8 | Icons | 223 |
| 9 | Color | 257 |
| 10 | Behaviors | 267 |
| 11 | Language | 305 |
| A | Resources | 329 |
| B | Bibliography | 335 |
| C | Checklist | 351 |
| Glossary | 363 | |
| Index | 373 |
It is a software design book and contains no hardware or service information. Apple's service manuals are in Category:Apple Service Source.
Pages that link here
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh System Software Users Guide 1988
- Technical Introduction to the Macintosh Family 1987
- Writing Localizable Software For The Macintosh 1992
- Macintosh Repair Resources
Download: Macintosh_Human_Interface_Guidelines_1992.pdf (89.5 MB)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Title and copyright pages of the scan (PDF pp. 2-3): copyright 1992 Apple Computer, Inc.; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; ISBN 0-201-62216-5; first printing November 1992.
- ↑ Macintosh human interface guidelines (OL1478725M), Open Library, from Library of Congress MARC data—link(accessed 2026-09-30) LCCN 93-144932; call number QA76.8.M3 M328 1992.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Contents, pp. v-xii (PDF pp. 4-11).