I'm looking to write a paper on how the OS X user interface has evolved from OS X Leopard all the way through to OS X Yosemite and am seeking guidance on where to find older versions of the OS X Human Interface Guidelines documentation.
The following data should aid in the search in the circumstance that navigating the WayBack Machine in the event that that is the only viable option.
- OS X 10.5 Leopard Release Date: October 26, 2007
- OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Release Date: August 28, 2009
- OS X 10.7 Lion Release Date: July 20, 2011
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Release Date: July 25, 2012
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks Release Date: October 22, 2013
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite Release Date: October 16, 2014
Any help in finding these documents would be greatly appreciated.
If there's not a complete link to them, perhaps several answers could point to each or one answer be maintained to point to them all.
Best Answer
It wasn't easy, but I think I got all of them.
2006-10-03:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070520203932/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
2008-01-15:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080225084449/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
2008-06-09:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081222045913/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
2009-08-20:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110604173215/http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
2012-07-23:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121004065110/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf
2013-10-22:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140603021344/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/OSXHIGuidelines.pdf