# Human Interface Guidelines |  | **Human Interface Guidelines** (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations. Their aim is to improve the experience for the users by making application interfaces more intuitive, learnable, and consistent. Most guides limit themselves to defining a common look and feel for applications in a particular desktop environment. The guides enumerate specific policies. Policies are sometimes based on studies of human–computer interaction, but most are based on conventions chosen by the platform developers preferences. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Human interface guidelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines) |