If you are a graphic designer or an interaction designer and have ever been tasked with creating a style guide or UI guidelines document (both are different and I’ve had the pleasure to work on both of them creating templates and the actual documents for brands and products), this list should help you out as a consolidated list of references.
This list is going to be constantly updated (and will ultimately be a monster list, it’s quite modest for now) of publicly accessible style guides and UI guideline documents on the web. If you find any links not working or would like to suggest one that is not on the list, feel free to comment and let me know.
- 3M logo standards (website, partial public access)
- ABB Brand Identity (website, partial public access)
- ACDSee Brand Style Guide (PDF download)
- Airbnb style guides
- Air Products Identity Standards (website, partial public access)
- Ameritech Graphical User Interface Standards and Design Guidelines (PDF, 1370 kb)
- AMAIA Residence Brand Manual (PDF, 816 kb)
- Android User Interface Guidelines (website)
- Apple OSX Human Interface Guidelines (website)
- Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines (website)
- Barbican Visual Identity (website with PDF download)
- BBC Future Media Standards & Guidelines (website)
- BBC Global Experience Language (GEL) (website)
- Belfast Zoo Brand guidelines
- Blackberry and RIM wireless handheld UI Developers Guide (PDF, 1.3 mb)
- BlackBerry Branding Guidelines (PDF, 300 kb)
- Brick brand guidelines
- Cargill Identity Style Guide
- Cambridge University Brand Guidelines
- Cunard Brand Guidelines
- ELMER 2– User Interface Guidelines for Government Web Forms (PDF, 1.2 mb)
- Easy Group Brand Manual (PDF, 2 mb)
- Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
- Federal Identity Program (Canada)
- Google material design
- GOOD Technology Brand Identity Guide
- Gnome Human Interface Guidelines
- Heineken Visual Guidelines
- Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
- KDE User Interface Guidelines
- Kew’s Brand Guidelines (PDF, 5 mb)
- Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines
- Microsoft Surface User Experience Guidelines
- MITRE- Guidelines for designing user interface software
- NASA style guide
- Novozymes’ brand guide (private access)
- The New School Visual Identity Manual (PDF, 6.5 mb)
- The New School Web Style Guide
- Oracle Alta Mobile UI Guidelines
- Oracle Alta UI Guidelines
- Oracle Fusion Help User Interface Guidelines
- Oracle Applications User Interface Standards for Forms (PDF)
- Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines
- Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Patterns and Guidelines
- Oracle Rich Client User Interface (RCUI) Guidelines
- Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
- RSA Brand Guide
- Salesforce lightning design system
- SAP Design Guidelines and Resources
- Silicon Graphics Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines
- Skype Brand Identity Guidelines
- Spelman College Visual Identity Guidelines (PDF, 1.3 mb)
- Reuters Brand Center
- Taligent Human Interface Guidelines
- Uber design guidelines
- University of Northern Colorado Identity Style Guide (PDF, 2.3 mb)
- WebEx brand style guide
- Windows User Experience
- Windows User Experience Guidelines
- Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
- Windows XP Visual Guidelines (There’s a download section to the right to download WindowsXP DesignGuidelines)
- Yale Web Style Guide
- Yale’s Visual Identity
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