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The Anti-Mac User Interface

The article by Gentner and Nielsen explores the downsides of desktop user interface and proposes principles that may form a basis for the next generation of computer user interfaces. However, it does not enumerate specific policies — two applications built with the article as their guide will not look and act as if they belonged to the same environment. That's because there is no environment, just some ideas that might get expanded into an environment by someone.

True, it's not always certain what constitutes a guideline and what is a principle, but I think this particular document is certainly not a HIG. Also, please note that Wikipedia has article covering the Anti-Mac user interface, which is a better link target if the concept of Anti-Mac user interface needs to be referred to. Aapo Laitinen 18:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it's not a HIG. Still relevant, though. — Omegatron 20:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Change link to "Apple Human Interface Guidelines" in the main article?

The link http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/index.html, "Apple Human Interface Guidelines", does not lead directly to that book/document.

A better link, I believe, is:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html

And/or to the PDF version:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mortense (talk • contribs) 01:06, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Remove GNU/Linux

The rational for this is that GNU/Linux desktops are used outside of GNU/Linux (Solaris and *BSD for example). Besides not GNOME nor KDE HIG is dependent on anything GNU nor Linux related. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.167.145.223 (talk) 23:52, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]