Comments on: Apple Human Interface Guidelines http://perspx.com/archives/apple-human-interface-guidelines/ Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:40:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Perspx : Useful Interface Builder Features http://perspx.com/archives/apple-human-interface-guidelines/#121 Perspx : Useful Interface Builder Features Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:26:10 +0000 http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/?p=454#comment-121 [...] Builder provides blue guides to aid positioning of objects, in accordance with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. However, if you want a tighter grain of control over the layout, there are other guides which help [...] [...] Builder provides blue guides to aid positioning of objects, in accordance with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. However, if you want a tighter grain of control over the layout, there are other guides which help [...]

]]> By: perspx http://perspx.com/archives/apple-human-interface-guidelines/#20 perspx Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:31:58 +0000 http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/?p=454#comment-20 > I think the biggest problem with the HIG is that nowadays Apple so often ignore it for their own apps in favour of coming up with something fresh and trendy. Yes I agree completely – I guess it goes back to the idea that the majority of users judge their apps on face value and want to see something new, and then there's the Apple "shiny" factor but they definitely contradict themselves. And iTunes is perhaps *the* prime example of Apple's hypocrisy because they labour a point about making apps look OS X native in the "Extending the Interface" section: "Don’t copy other platforms’ user interface elements or behaviors in Mac OS X, because they may confuse users who aren’t familiar with them." Yet iTunes for Windows does *exactly* this, and although it's a platform reversal it completely goes against their design principles. > I think the biggest problem with the HIG is that nowadays Apple so often ignore it for their own apps in favour of coming up with something fresh and trendy.

Yes I agree completely – I guess it goes back to the idea that the majority of users judge their apps on face value and want to see something new, and then there’s the Apple “shiny” factor but they definitely contradict themselves.

And iTunes is perhaps *the* prime example of Apple’s hypocrisy because they labour a point about making apps look OS X native in the “Extending the Interface” section:

“Don’t copy other platforms’ user interface elements or behaviors in Mac OS X, because they may confuse users who aren’t familiar with them.”

Yet iTunes for Windows does *exactly* this, and although it’s a platform reversal it completely goes against their design principles.

]]> By: John Topley http://perspx.com/archives/apple-human-interface-guidelines/#19 John Topley Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:22:32 +0000 http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/?p=454#comment-19 I think the biggest problem with the HIG is that nowadays Apple so often ignore it for their own apps in favour of coming up with something fresh and trendy. Just witness how iTunes has changed over the years. UI consistency on the Mac (and on Windows for that matter) is a shadow of what it once was. I think the biggest problem with the HIG is that nowadays Apple so often ignore it for their own apps in favour of coming up with something fresh and trendy. Just witness how iTunes has changed over the years. UI consistency on the Mac (and on Windows for that matter) is a shadow of what it once was.

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