Great source of inspiration. Check it out:
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
- ABB Brand Identity
- ACDSee Brand Style Guide
- Air Products Identity Standards
- Ameritech Graphical User Interface Standards and Design Guidelines (This one is from the Internet Archive)
- AMAIA Residence Brand Manual (PDF, 816 kb)
- Android User Interface Guidelines
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- Barbican Brand Guidelines for Print / Web / and Plasmas
- BBC Future Media Standards & Guidelines
- BBC Global Experience Language (GEL)
- 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 Manual
- Cunard Brand Guidelines
- Easy Group Brand Manual (PDF, 2 mb)
- Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
- Federal Identity Program (Canada)
- GOOD Technology Brand Identity Guide
- Gnome Human Interface Guidelines
- Heineken Brand Manual
- iPhone Human Interface 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
- Novozymes’ brand guide
- The New School Visual Identity Manual (PDF, 6.5 mb)
- The New School Web Style Guide
- Nokia Design and User Experience Library
- Oracle Technology Network Guidelines
- Palm User Interface & Human Interface Guidelines
- RSA brand standards
- SAP Interaction Design Guide for Internet Application Components
- SAP Design Guild
- SAP User Interface guidelines
- 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
- WebEx brand style guide
- Web Style Guide 2nd edition
- 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
- Yahoo! Style guide
via The UX Bookmark
