ui history

Windows 3.1’s most notorious color theme — the so‑called Hot Dog Stand — was not a machinist’s prank, an inside joke, or a deliberately malicious “worst‑possible” experiment; it was simply a loud, poorly judged palette that stuck in people’s memories and then became a legend of design folklore...

A meticulously recreated Apple Lisa desktop is now playable in any modern browser, and the project—called LisaGUI—does more than nostalgia: it’s a thoughtful reimagining of a document‑centric user experience that helped define what graphical computing would become. Built from scratch in...

What is old is new again, and nowhere in technology is that axiom more apparent than in user interface design. Apple’s recent unveiling of iOS 26’s Liquid Glass design language has not only sent ripples through the iPhone and iPad communities, but has reignited a conversation on the cyclical...

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