Apple: Human Interface Guidelines
Apple has an archive of its Human Interface Guidelines, which includes various published versions. Users are encouraged to report any missing versions by filing an issue or pull request. The guidelines date back to the early 1990s, with resources available in different formats.
- ▪Apple maintains an archive of its Human Interface Guidelines.
- ▪Users can file issues or pull requests for missing versions.
- ▪The guidelines have historical resources dating back to 1992.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines/tree/main |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 17:56:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T18:07:39.397Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T18:07:39.397Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _T2FkdZW1IrX |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines Archive of published versions. Feel free to file a new Issue or Pull Request if you find any that are missing. Other resources 1992 — Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion (CD-ROM) 199x — Inside Macintosh CD-ROMs contain the Human Interface Guidelines in DocViewer format
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.