GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery

userinterface.wiki

A living manual for better interfaces. Learn design principles, motion, typography, and more.

Web Interface Guidelines

Guidelines for building great interfaces on the web. Covers interactions, animations, layout, content, forms, performance & design.

Interfaces › Design Engineering Magazine

Interfaces is a design engineering magazine about building great interfaces that covers topics such as animation, typography, layout and color.

10/GUI

Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There's more information at http://10gui.com .

Andy Matuschak

I'm an applied researcher, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do. My current focus is an augmented book which actively helps people understand, remember, and use what they read.

Interfaces › Cheat Sheet

A list of tips, improvements and best practices that quickly make your interfaces better.

Web Interface Guidelines

A non-exhaustive list of details that make a good web interface.

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Atlas — Moodboard, Reference & Inspiration Library for Mac

A native, local-first Mac app for design inspiration. Organize images and video into moodboards and reference libraries. No cloud, no subscription — $39 once.

Awesome Generative UI - AI-Powered User Interface Generation Resources

Discover the best Generative UI resources: research papers, real-world cases, video tutorials, and open-source projects about AI-driven dynamic interface generation. Explore how LLMs like Gemini, Claude, and GPT are revolutionizing UI/UX design.

Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS

See everything. Switch nothing. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes on one infinite canvas with dataflow connections. Native macOS.

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bretworrydream.com. You can also download the PDF.

Building a UI framework

Building a UI Framework Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch) — 2025 — First Edition — https://software.hixie.ch/ui-frameworksTo leave comments, use the edit version. Introduction This document examines important design decisions for creating a new graphical UI framework. It was commissioned to answer the...

Direct manipulation vs. interface agents

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Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better

A collection of details that make your interfaces feel better.