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I think the parent was making a reference to the original Macintosh GUI guideline [1] (human interface guideline). They are quite famous in the UI / UX communit

I think the parent was making a reference to the original Macintosh GUI guideline [1] (human interface guideline). They are quite famous in the UI / UX community as being a pioneering way[2] of explaining and thus unifying the look and feel of third party applications. [1] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf [2] http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/4p-guidelines.html http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/4p-guidelines.html

DCKing 12y ago
Oh I see. But that still doesn't validate his cynicism, as Google has been doing that for quite some time as well for Holo [1]. It's not as if this is the first time that Google has a "design language" for Android. [1] http://developer.android.com/design/index.html http://developer.android.com/design/index.html