Apple Human Interface Guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/↗

What this source teaches

• Extract transferable product doctrine from Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• Prefer first-party production constraints over secondary summaries.

Where AwesomeDS applied it

• rule.a11y.wcag-aa — Meet WCAG 2.2 AA by default
• rule.adaptation.capability-first — Adapt by capability, not device label
• rule.adaptation.constrained-surfaces — Constrained surfaces expose bounded meaning and action
• rule.agent.go-wide-remix-repeat — Agents go wide, remix, and repeat
• rule.agent.real-content-risk-gates — Agents prove design with real content, hostile states, and risk gates
• rule.foundations.platform-literacy — Respect platform grammar before brand divergence
• rule.interaction.interface-quality — Interface quality is a reviewable checklist
• rule.product.agency-responsibility — Protect agency and model responsibility
• rule.product.craft-systemic-delight — Craft and delight are system properties
• rule.product.familiar-flexible-simple — Make semantics familiar, context flexible, and decisions simple
• rule.product.purpose-before-feature — Purpose precedes feature and polish
• rule.trust.contextual-permission — Request minimum permission at the moment of intent
• rule.trust.icon-system — Icons are governed semantic systems

Implementations and artifacts

• artifact.doc.platform-literacy — Platform literacy (design-system/foundations/platform-literacy.md)
• artifact.script.design-decision-contract — Executable design decision contracts (packages/core/src/design-contracts.ts)

Caveats & anti-imitation

Transfer principles; never copy proprietary visual identity or assets.

Evidence: first-party-guidance · Verified 2026-07-13 · Cadence 90d