Papers and articles regarding GUIs:

	“Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system” by Ivan E. Sutherland, from proceedings of AFIPS 1963 The seminal paper describing Sketchpad, a system using the first graphical user interface
	“Microelectronics and the Personal Computer” by Alan C. Kay, from Scientific American 1977 A seminal paper about the possibilities of personal computing, exemplified in Xerox Alto
	“Xerox xooms toward the office of the future” by Bro Uttal, from Fortune 1981 An article about Xerox Star and changes in Xerox’s Office Products Division
	“The Star user interface: an overview” by David Canfield Smith, Charles Irby, Ralph Kimball and Eric Harslem, from proceedings of AFIPS 1982 An illustrated description of the Xerox 8010 “Star” interface
	“A retrospective on the development of Star” by Eric Harslem and LeRoy E. Nelson, from from proceedings of ICSE 1982 A rather technical look at Xerox Star – not much of GUI-related information, but helpful in putting the development of 8010 into context
	“Designing the Star User Interface” by Dr. David Canfield Smith, Charles Irby, Ralph Kimball, Bill Verplank and Eric Harslem, from Byte 1982 Extensive breakdown of rules and ideas behind Xerox Star interface (with screenshots)
	“Human factors testing in the design of Xerox’s 8010 ‘Star’ office workstation” by William L. Bewley, Teresa L. Roberts, David Schroit and William L. Verplank, from CHI ‘83 Conference Proceedings A description of various user tests conducted while developing the Xerox Star user interface
	“A visual counterpart of the top of your desk” by , from Personal Computing 1983 Short review of VisiOn
	“VisiCorp’s VisiOn” by Phil Lopiccola and Rachael Wrege, from Popular Computing 1983 A review of VisiOn, with some comparisons to Apple Lisa
	“Visi On’s Interface Design” by George Woodmansee, from Byte 1983 An article describing the methods and concepts used during creation of Visi On
	“Lisa’s alternative operating system” by Bruce Daniels, from Computer Design 1983 A rather technical look at Lisa’s operating system
	“Accounting for Lisa and the future” by David Hunter, from Softalk 1983 A portrait of Exec BPI System, a company using Apple Lisa for its accounting
	“How Apple presents Lisa” by David Durkee, from Softalk 1983 Article on the ways Apple is tutoring Lisa users
	“Backtalk” by Tommy Gear, from Softalk 1983 A very strange, almost advertising-like column on the virtues of VisiCorp and VisiOn
	“The lab that ran away from Xerox” by Bro Uttal, from Fortune 1983 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, people behind it, and transformation of Alto into the Star
	“Fortune Product of the Year Award” by Rosalind Klein, from Fortune 1983 A short blurb on Lisa receiving an award for its user-friendliness
	“The integrated software and user interface of Apple’s Lisa” by Edward W. Birss, from proceedings of the AFIPS 1984 National Computer Conference Description of basic rules governing the Lisa GUI
	“The Visi On™ experience – From concept to marketplace” by George Woodmansee, from Proceedings of INTERACT ’84 Similar paper from a Human-Computer Interaction conference, outlining Visi On’s development
	“A tour of the Mac desktop” by Lon Poole, from Macworld 1984 An overview of Macintosh’s GUI
	“Of mice and men” by Steven Levy, from Popular Computing 1984 A story on Douglas Engelbart and his most popular invention
	“The desktop environment” by Paul Bonner, from Personal Computing 1984 An article about pros and cons of desktop GUIs and the 1984’s status quo
	“Evaluating the Macintosh Finder” by Mark S. Jennings, from Byte 1984 A look at shortcomings of first edition of Macintosh’s graphical user interface
	“A GEM from DRI?” by Michael J. Miller, from Popular Computing 1985 A short announcement of Graphics Environment Manager
	“LisaLearning” by John M. Carroll and Sandra A. Mazur, from IEEE Computer 1986 A thorough evaluation of LisaLearning software
	“Apple Lisa Graphical Object-Oriented User Interface” by David T. Craig, 1987 An outline of Lisa’s user interface principles
	“Face to face with Open Look” by Tony Hoeber, from Byte 1988 An initial evaluation of OPEN LOOK
	“The X Window System” by Dick Pountain, from Byte 1989 Technical description of The X Window System
	“OSF/Motif” by John Paul, from Byte 1989 A first look at OSF/Motif
	“Of mice and menus: Designing the user-friendly interface” by Tekla S. Perry and John Voelcker, from IEEE Spectrum 1989 A history of early GUIs, full of interesting tidbits
	“The Xerox Star: A retrospective” by Jeff Johnson, Teresa L. Roberts, William Verplank, David C. Smith, Charles H. Irby, Marian Beard and, from IEEE Computer 1989 A description of Xerox Star’s design, development, features and evolution
	“Of mice and menus: Designing the user-friendly interface” by Tekla S. Perry and John Voelcker, from IEEE Spectrum 1989 A history of early GUIs, full of interesting tidbits
	“Apple, early officers face trial over Twiggy” by Carolyn Said, from MacWEEK 1989 Short piece on Apple’s problems with proprietary Twiggy drives
	“The father of computer graphics” by Don Bissell, from Byte 1990 A little piece on Ivan Sutherland’s unique Sketchpad
	“The X attitude” by Marshall Brain, from Byte 1991 Pros and cons of The X Window System
	“Just like magic?” by Tom R. Halfhill and Andy Reinhardt, from Byte 1994 A look at the Magic Cap interface
	“Sony releases Magic Cap device” by Andy Reinhardt, from Byte 1994 A quick look at the first Magic Cap device
	“Inventing the Lisa User Interface” by Roderick Perkins, Dan Smith Keller, Frank Ludolph, from Interactions 1997 An illustrated history of developing the Lisa GUI
	“The Lisa user interface” by Frank Ludolph and Roderick Perkins, from CHI ‘98 Conference Summary A short summary of Lisa’s interface principles
	“One thousand square pixels of canvas” by Marcin Wichary, 2003 Exclusive: A paper on evolution of icons in graphical interfaces
	“Apple II User Interfaces” by Tony Kavadias, 2004 Exclusive: A very interesting and extensive look at text- and graphical-based user interfaces for Apple II