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The '''Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines''' is '''Apple's own book''', '''© 1992 Apple | |||
Computer''', published by Addison-Wesley, '''398 pages'''. It carries Apple's standard manual | |||
warranty text, which is how you can tell an Apple-authored Addison-Wesley title from a third-party one. | |||
== What it covers == | |||
Apple's definitive statement of how a Macintosh application should behave: the desktop metaphor, | |||
direct manipulation, consistency, feedback and dialogue, forgiveness, and then the detailed | |||
specification of menus, windows, dialogue boxes, controls, colour and language. | |||
It matters to a repairer for one reason only: '''it is the manufacturer's account of correct | |||
behaviour''', which is the baseline a software-side fault is judged against. If a machine's interface | |||
behaves in a way this book says it should not, that is a fault; if it behaves the way this book | |||
describes, it is not. | |||
== This is not a repair source == | |||
This is a '''programming''' book. It contains '''no schematics, no parts lists, no component values, | |||
no voltages, no connector pinouts and no service procedures''', and nothing in it should be cited for | |||
a hardware figure. Apple's software documentation and its compiler manuals describe the machine as | |||
the programmer sees it, which is not the machine the technician sees. | |||
For hardware data use: | |||
* [[:Category:Apple Service Source|Apple Service Source]] — Apple's own service manuals, module | |||
level: specifications, symptom charts, take-apart and module part numbers | |||
* Apple's '''Developer Notes''' — the one class of Apple developer document that ''does'' carry | |||
rail currents, expansion-slot power budgets and connector pinouts. Several are held here, for | |||
example [[Macintosh IIci Developer Note]], [[Macintosh IIsi Developer Note]] and | |||
[[Macintosh LC 475 and Quadra 605 Developer Note]]. | |||
* [[Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets]] and [[The Dead Mac Scrolls]] — component-level, for | |||
the compact Macs | |||
== Related documents held here == | |||
* [[Macintosh System Software Users Guide 1988]] — Apple's user-facing account of the same system | |||
* [[Technical Instroduction To The Macintosh Family 1987]] — Apple's technical introduction | |||
<pdf> File:Macintosh_Human_Interface_Guidelines_1992.pdf </pdf> | |||
Download: [[:File:Macintosh_Human_Interface_Guidelines_1992.pdf|Macintosh_Human_Interface_Guidelines_1992.pdf]] (89.5 MB) | |||
[[Category:Apple Programming Documentation]] | [[Category:Apple Programming Documentation]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:42, 25 September 2026
The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines is Apple's own book, © 1992 Apple Computer, published by Addison-Wesley, 398 pages. It carries Apple's standard manual warranty text, which is how you can tell an Apple-authored Addison-Wesley title from a third-party one.
What it covers
[edit | edit source]Apple's definitive statement of how a Macintosh application should behave: the desktop metaphor, direct manipulation, consistency, feedback and dialogue, forgiveness, and then the detailed specification of menus, windows, dialogue boxes, controls, colour and language.
It matters to a repairer for one reason only: it is the manufacturer's account of correct behaviour, which is the baseline a software-side fault is judged against. If a machine's interface behaves in a way this book says it should not, that is a fault; if it behaves the way this book describes, it is not.
This is not a repair source
[edit | edit source]This is a programming book. It contains no schematics, no parts lists, no component values, no voltages, no connector pinouts and no service procedures, and nothing in it should be cited for a hardware figure. Apple's software documentation and its compiler manuals describe the machine as the programmer sees it, which is not the machine the technician sees.
For hardware data use:
- Apple Service Source — Apple's own service manuals, module
level: specifications, symptom charts, take-apart and module part numbers
- Apple's Developer Notes — the one class of Apple developer document that does carry
rail currents, expansion-slot power budgets and connector pinouts. Several are held here, for example Macintosh IIci Developer Note, Macintosh IIsi Developer Note and Macintosh LC 475 and Quadra 605 Developer Note.
- Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets and The Dead Mac Scrolls — component-level, for
the compact Macs
Related documents held here
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh System Software Users Guide 1988 — Apple's user-facing account of the same system
- Technical Instroduction To The Macintosh Family 1987 — Apple's technical introduction
Download: Macintosh_Human_Interface_Guidelines_1992.pdf (89.5 MB)