In user interface design, an interface metaphor is a set of user interface visuals, actions and procedures that exploit specific knowledge that users already...

computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact...

Conceptual metaphor, metaphors in cognitive linguistics, understanding one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another Interface metaphor, metaphors in computer...

the desktop metaphor by making tasks, not files, the primary unit of interaction. Text-based user interfaces (TUIs) are user interfaces which interact...

directory, which is a file system concept, and the graphical user interface metaphor that is used to represent it (a folder).[original research?] For example...

easy data transfer between applications. The command names are an interface metaphor based on the physical procedure used in manuscript print editing to...

include GUIs (most notably desktop metaphors with a mouse pointer, such as Microsoft Windows), text-based user interface menus (such as DOS Shell and IBM...

A graphical user interface, or GUI (/ˈɡuːi/ GOO-ee), is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical...

Cognitive metaphor refers to certain kinds of metaphors. The same as a Conceptual metaphor in cognitive science An approach to an Interface metaphor in computing...

the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes...

computing, an object-oriented user interface (OOUI) is a type of user interface based on an object-oriented programming metaphor, and describes most modern operating...

Like Oberon, though, its user interface supports a point and click interface metaphor to execute commands directly from text, similar to clicking hyperlinks...

real-world metaphors for objects and actions can make it easier for a user to learn and use an interface (some might say that the interface is more natural...

disk became an interface metaphor for saving data. As of 2022[update], the floppy disk symbol is still used by software on user-interface elements related...

floating icon to drag and drop into a destination a rich notebook user interface metaphor: Documents existed as pages in a notebook with tabs (this was not...

In interface design, a tab is a graphical user interface object that allows multiple documents or panels to be contained within a single window, using...

A multiple-document interface (MDI) is a graphical user interface in which multiple windows reside under a single parent window. Such systems often allow...

computing, a zooming user interface or zoomable user interface (ZUI, pronounced zoo-ee) is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) where users can change...

Internet metaphors provide users and researchers of the Internet a structure for understanding and communicating its various functions, uses, and experiences...

Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features. The control panel consists of multiple...

Google.[citation needed] Desktop metaphor History of the graphical user interface Natural user interface Touch user interface X Window System Markoff, John...

and was the first computer to demonstrate the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). It was not a commercial product, but several thousand...

group from PARC led by David Liddle and Charles Irby formed Metaphor Computer Systems. Metaphor Computer Systems extended the Star desktop concept into an...

(Workbench). The icon on the desktop, taken from the .info itself, is the interface metaphor through which the user interacts both with the project itself and...

also respond to the mouse. A graphical user interface (GUI) using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components...

instantly jump in and out of view, which is incongruent with the interface metaphor (and with a physical office setting). Some systems like the Classic...

personal computer designed to fit on a desk Desktop metaphor, a style of graphical user interface modeled after a physical work surface Desktop environment...

(GUI). Mann referred to this work as "natural user interfaces", "Direct User Interfaces", and "metaphor-free computing". Mann's EyeTap technology typically...

and easier for gamers. Due to their similarity to the WIMP desktop metaphor interface for which mice were originally designed, and to their own tabletop...

A notebook interface or computational notebook is a virtual notebook environment used for literate programming, a method of writing computer programs...