The Graphical User Interface Gallery

One of the things that landed in my lap early on (System 8?) at Apple was the color picker. We were moving to PPC (PowerPC) and much of the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness)picker (HSV, hue, saturation, value?) was in raw 68K assembly. Having never written assemble (68K or otherwise), I knew I was out of my league ... but I persisted. Line by line, I replaced the assembler code with straight C. I was able to scare up a Motorola…

It's my opinion that the Windows Control panel (pictured here: http://toastytech.com/guis/win10control.png) is the single worst designed user interface of all time. Why? It is the only - and I mean only - list of items on a screen organized horizontally in any OS I can think of. Any time you resize the window, every single item in the list is now reorganized into different rows and columns. Ever wonder why you can never seem to find what you want in…

I've spent too much time on that website I think I've developed an appreciation of GUIs before the mid-nineties: Buttons for everything, no hidden corners and such, no excessive skeuomorphism, respect of preferences in colors and fonts, low feature creep, no excessive social media integration and network services 'integration' (AOL, MSN). What happened since? The open-source world hasn't offered anything of that caliber, so I guess there was a shift in thinking at some point.