Comments on: Official Usability, User Experience & User Interface Guidelines From Companies

By: David Shu

David Shu — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:54:00 +0000

is there a Design / UX guideline that anyone would recommend for Mobile Websites without preference for native OSs?

By: Justin Mifsud

Justin Mifsud — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:29:28 +0000

@Rolf, @Dragon, @Marc: Thanks for mentioning the BBC Global Experience Language (GEL).

@Wouter: Thanks for the Skype link

But, whilst these resources there are pretty amazing, I have not included them in this list because I wanted to restrict it to OSs, software and devices. Indeed there are some awesome guidelines like these that you provided that can be applied to various site designs.

Thanks for contributing!

By: Rolf van der Steen

Rolf van der Steen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:03:20 +0000

BBC has a very nice guideline online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/gel/

By: Justin Mifsud

Justin Mifsud — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:39:25 +0000

Hi Ravi,

Yes I know that Windows Mobile has been discontinued. I listed it here for legacy purposes. However, thanks for providing me with the link for the Windows Mobile UI guidelines. I have now included them.

By: Justin Mifsud

Justin Mifsud — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:30:12 +0000

Hi Fabrizio,

Thanks for noticing. Sony Ericsson have moved the link to the Developer World site since this post was published. I have now fixed it.

By: Dawesi

Dawesi — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:42:54 +0000

@flyer unlike dotnet java is a very broad product. it would be near impossible to have a guide that encompases the unparalled diversity of devices java is on, a lot of them don’t even have interfaces! That’s how huge this product is.

watches
pdas
pcs
cars
robots
diswashers
etc,etc

By: Marc Robichaud

Marc Robichaud — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:54:18 +0000

While more focused on visual design, I quite enjoyed the BBC Global Experience Language guidelines: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/gel/

By: Brad Colbow

Brad Colbow — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:06:38 +0000

Here is a good resource I found to go along with the ones you have here. Google’s Android documentation is very technical and can be hard to digest. One of the designers at a company called Mutual Mobile has rewritten these guidelines in a designer friendly way.
http://www.mutualmobile.com/author/adam-beckley/

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:52:39 +0000

Great resources. Especially like Apple and Google guides since they cover both usability and experience.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:06:20 +0000

You might want to check out the BBC online web development standards and guidelines. They are very thorough.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/