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Graphical user interface

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The history of the graphic user interface

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How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX

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Xerox and the gui

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UI Design Process: From Sketch to GUI

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Graphical User Interfaces: Crash Course Computer Science #26

The graphical user interface (GUI ), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, 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.
  • Other American inventions 

  • User interface and interaction design 

  • Components 

  • Post-WIMP interface 

  • Interaction 

  • Early efforts 

  • Popularization 

  • Command-line interfaces 

  • GUI wrappers 

  • Three-dimensional graphical user interfaces (3D GUIs) 

  • Technologies 

  • In science fiction