







A clean desktop environment simulation with animated window icons
Wallpaper Engine: Animated Wallpapers on Windows
Use stunning live and dynamic wallpapers to customize your Windows desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos and websites and share them with others!
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 .
Anthropic experiments with real-time UI generation on Claude
What do we know so far? "Imagine with Claude" will be released as a temporary demo for certain plans (only Max?). Users will be interacting with a classic desktop UI where windows and apps are managed by the AI itself.

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]
Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…

Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

Why We Need to Rethink the Computer ‘Desktop’ as a Concept
Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI

syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
Websites, web apps, portfolios that look like desktop operating systems
Prefab: implementing advanced behaviors using pixel-based reverse engineering of interface structure
The rigidity and fragmentation of GUI toolkits are fundamentally limiting the progress and impact of interaction research. Pixel-based methods offer unique potential for addressing these challenges independent of the implementation of any particular ...

Custom desktop experiment - evolvable mini-apps running iniside Niri and NixOS



Desktop apps
Build self-contained desktop applications from a Deno project, with framework auto-detection, hot reload, native windowing, auto-update, and cross-platform distribution.

Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation — Peter Whidden
boringBar - A taskbar-style Dock replacement for macOS
A taskbar-style Dock replacement for macOS with desktop-aware windows, previews, pinned apps, and badges.
