The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade...
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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...
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refine final interface mockups. User interfaces are the points of interaction between users and designs. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) Users interact with...
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In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur...
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zooming user interface or zoomable user interface (ZUI, pronounced zoo-ee) is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) where users can change the scale of the...
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elements of graphical user interfaces such as menus, buttons, scrollbars or any other widget. The pointer hotspot is the active pixel of the pointer,...
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A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll...
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In user interface design, a mode is a distinct setting within a computer program or any physical machine interface, in which the same user input will...
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is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme used in Apple Inc.'s operating systems. It was originally based on the theme of water...
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decades,[citation needed] a CLI was the most common interface for software, but today a graphical user interface (GUI) is more common. Nonetheless, many...
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X Window System (category Software using the MIT license)
for remote graphical user interfaces and input device capabilities. Each person using a networked terminal has the ability to interact with the display with...
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later History of the graphical user interface History of the Internet History of the World Wide Web List of pioneers in computer science Timeline of electrical...
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A voice-user interface (VUI) enables spoken human interaction with computers, using speech recognition to understand spoken commands and answer questions...
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Icon (computing) (redirect from History of computer icons)
the history of the graphical user interface that has largely supplanted the text-based interface for casual use. The computing definition of "icon" can...
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list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is...
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WIMP (computing) (redirect from Wimp interface)
metaphor History of the graphical user interface Natural user interface Touch user interface X Window System Markoff, John (February 16, 2009). "The Cellphone...
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Unity is not a collection of applications. It is designed to use existing programs. The Unity user interface consists of several components: Top menu...
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Windowing system (redirect from Graphical server)
parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for a user interface...
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a natural user interface (NUI) or natural interface is a user interface that is effectively invisible, and remains invisible as the user continuously...
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tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment. The initial name...
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Liquid Glass (category Graphical user interface design languages)
unified visual theme for the graphical user interfaces for its suite of operating systems. It was first announced on June 9, 2025, at the Worldwide Developers...
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Sketchpad (category Graphical user interfaces)
method of human–computer interaction. See History of the graphical user interface for a more detailed discussion of GUI development. Sketchpad was the earliest...
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A touch user interface (TUI) is a computer-pointing technology based upon the sense of touch (haptics). Whereas a graphical user interface (GUI) relies...
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The Magic User Interface (MUI in short) is an object-oriented system by Stefan Stuntz to generate and maintain graphical user interfaces. With the aid...
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Apple Lisa (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
Macintosh. It was the first mass-market personal computer operable through a graphical user interface (GUI). In 1983, a machine like the Lisa was still so...
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Neumorphism (category Graphical user interfaces)
Neumorphism is a design style used in graphical user interfaces. It is commonly identified by a soft and light look (for which it is sometimes referred...
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Shell (computing) (redirect from Operating system user interface)
system. A shell is generally a command-line interface (CLI) program although some graphical user interface (GUI) programs are arguably classified as shells...
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Model–view–controller (section History)
facilitate the implementation of the pattern. One of the seminal insights in the early development of graphical user interfaces, MVC became one of the first...
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licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0. Namebench runs on Windows, OS X, and Unix. It is available with a graphical user interface as well as a...
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In computing, an object-oriented user interface (OOUI) is a type of user interface based on an object-oriented programming metaphor, and describes most...
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