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Everything about Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation. In many applications, GUIs are used instead of text-based UIs, which are based on typed command labels or text navigation. GUIs were introduced in reaction to the perceived steep learning curve of command-line interfaces (CLIs), which require commands to be typed on a computer keyboard. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Graphical user interfaceA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: py.Aroma: An Intuitive Graphical User Interface for Diverse Aromaticity AnalysesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Unix System V Release 4The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)Cited 14,253 times
  5. Go sideways: History of the graphical user interfaceA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: WIMP (computing)A closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. GUI and interaction design
  2. Examples
  3. Components
  4. Post-WIMP interface
  5. Interaction
  6. History
  7. Comparison to other interfaces
  8. Three-dimensional graphical user interface

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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