GUI

GUI stands for "Graphical User Interface", and refers to the images/icons shown on a display screen for electronic devices. The GUI is usually displayed on a two dimensional screen, and enables a user to graphically interact with a software application which controls the hardware components of an electronic device. Some of the most common electronic devices to feature a GUI are listed below.

  1. Computers, a prime example would be a desktop or laptop computer.
  2. Mobile Phones, a prime example would be a smartphone.
  3. Multimedia Devices, a prime example would be an iPod Touch.
  4. Gaming Devices, a prime example would be a Sony PSP.
  5. Printers/Scanner
  6. Electronically controlled household appliances like Fridge Freezers.

The GUI is part and parcel of a larger software application, shown below is the GUI for the operating system Microsoft Windows 7.

a gui for a popular operating system for a home computer

Microsoft Windows is probably the best known and most commonly used GUI in existence. Microsoft was not the first IT company to develop a GUI, that belongs to Xerox. Apple developed the first successful GUI, which was developed for 'The Macintosh 128K'. The first GUI ever created is credited to the Stanford Research Institute, based in the US.

 
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