|  | Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.
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| | Site last updated on 6th October 2006:
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| | Three of 14 posters for Macintosh’s 20th birthday present its groundbreaking GUI:
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| | Windows XP icons were created in part by the design studio at IconFactory.  Unfortunately, the team was not hired to redo all the icons, hence many inconsistencies between them. |
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| |  | This GUI for post-Archimedes Acorn machines featured an updated NewLook interface, but most of the changes (such as support for StrongARM processors, audio and video chips, disk controllers) were under the hood. As all previous editions of RISC OS, it was a ROM release, which meant extremely fast boot times.
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| |  | After the GUI introduces itself, it is usually your turn to reciprocate. Compare all the ways you can arrange two simple text controls for login and password.
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| |  | This is the calculator icon from Windows 1.0 and 2.0. As the other icons in this GUI, it is black and white, small, and – quite frankly – rather awful. Fortunately, Microsoft hired Susan Kare of Macintosh’s fame to prettify the 1990’s release of Windows 3.0.
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