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Edit: I'm looking more for the content released by companies not in the operating system/browser world. Sure, there's a ton of stuff out there from Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, etc. about their UIs and how to build UIs for applications on those platforms, but I think there's more variety and potential novelty in the content released by other companies/apps. A good example in from the answers already submitted was Skype. It's more in line with what I'm looking for. It's more of a "here's 30 pages, in Issuu format, about how we should look", as opposed to, "here's 100pages of HCI guidelines, or a huge vault of developer documentation".

I think the content at http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns and http://mailchimp.com/about/style-guide/ is an excellent way to solve some of the issues described on the landing page of the first link:

We’re also solving an internal communication problem by documenting and assembling a reference site of our patterns. A common lexicon of code and UI elements benefits us in a few ways:

  • We can build consistently and focus on workflows and logic, not web forms and list items
  • We can reuse code instead of roping in a developer
  • We can maintain our code by seeing our patterns in one place, define elements in our application, and keep redundancy to a minimum

I'd like to review more of this type of content. Can anyone suggest other companies that have created and opened up this type content (and done a good job of it)?

dennislees
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  • are you looking for design/UX guidelines from established companies? – Chairman Meow Mar 07 '14 at 18:41
  • You could look at the way almost any CMS handles skins/templates. I have worked with DotNetNuke for years. They have a team dedicated to how to make the skin more flexible for their users. – Adam Zuckerman Mar 07 '14 at 20:51

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Some design/UX guidelines from reputable companies:

Google Android: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html

Apple iOS: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/MobileHIG/index.html

Apple OSX: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Intro/Intro.html

Yahoo.com: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/hh779072

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  • These are good, but I wonder if the OP is asking more about internal corporate UX guides made public (vs. guides for platforms made by said companies) – DA01 Mar 07 '14 at 18:53
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A few more to add.

Skype: http://issuu.com/bondo/docs/skype_brand_book_-_look

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/branding/

It would be nice if there was a framework for this, ay?

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  • You mean a framework for ux.stackexchange? that'd be pretty cool alright – dennislees Mar 10 '14 at 01:59
  • More like a framework for web brand style guides. Think Bootstrap example page with some brand style guide sprinkled in. – Tom Mar 10 '14 at 14:30