Graphical User Interface (GUI) refers to icons, windows, and/or menus to offer a mechanism to interact with electronic devices visually. There has been quite a bit of debate around the registrability ...

User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Editor’s note: This is a Q&A between attorneys Beth Ferrill and Lauren Dreyer of Finnegan, and UX/UI designers Erik Dreyer of GoodShuffle and John Sanchez of Academy. User experience and ...

“While patenting a website’s computer implemented methods presents tricky Section 101 issues, the GUI’s of those sites are surprisingly easy to patent via design patents.” A common question I get is ...

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Bertel is a Linux user who likes budget smartphones more than flagships, uses a custom ROM, and gets his apps from F-Droid. When he isn't writing short stories for Android Police, you might find him ...

User interface designer R. Clayton Miller thinks the mouse and the windows-based desktop metaphor should die. It’s just too confusing. However, he also argues that multitouch displays are not the ...

When Java debuted in 1995, the focus was on applets — mini-applications, typically with a graphical user interface (GUI), that ran inside Web browsers. Developers who had worked with GUI systems, ...