On: Building the First GUIs

[bmitc]

Do you know of any good (presumably old) resources like books or articles that cover efficient economical GUIs and GUI frameworks?

[DonHopkins → bmitc]

Brad Myers. All the Widgets (Fixed v2) - 1990.

This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then. Previously published as: Brad A. Myers. All the Widgets. 2 hour, 15 min videotape. Technical Video Program of the SIGCHI'90 conference, Seattle, WA. April 1-4, 1990. SIGGRAPH Video Review, Issue 57. ISBN 0-89791-930-0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtd8Hc90Hw

Also by Brad Myers:

Taxonomies of Visual Programming (1990) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26057530

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/VLtax2-jvlc-1990.pdf

Updated version:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/chi86vltax.pdf

[mixmastamyk → bmitc]

There were the original Apple and Gnome HIG (human interface guides). Also Ask Tog, and nngroup.com for web stuff.

[int_19h → mixmastamyk]

Windows also had one.

And they are all ultimately derived from IBM CUA, so that's a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

[mixmastamyk → int_19h]

The classic Mac interface is a couple of years older, although most of these seminal works were published in the late 80s.

[Torwald → bmitc]

Ask Tog

https://www.asktog.com