Graphical User Interface (GUI) refers to icons, windows, and/or menus to offer a mechanism to interact with electronic devices visually. There has been quite a bit of debate around the registrability ...

Editor’s note: This is a Q&A between attorneys Beth Ferrill and Lauren Dreyer of Finnegan, and UX/UI designers Erik Dreyer of GoodShuffle and John Sanchez of Academy. User experience and ...

“While patenting a website’s computer implemented methods presents tricky Section 101 issues, the GUI’s of those sites are surprisingly easy to patent via design patents.” A common question I get is ...

User interface designer R. Clayton Miller thinks the mouse and the windows-based desktop metaphor should die. It’s just too confusing. However, he also argues that multitouch displays are not the ...

There's a well understood UI design process that you can use to get to the "right" UI for your application. And it starts by inventing people. There's been sufficient interest in the recent columns on ...

What makes a user interface truly remarkable? Is it the sleek design, the seamless functionality, or the way it intuitively guides users without them even realizing it? The truth is, it’s all of these ...

This article supplements our previous post with updated 2021 data. U.S. design patents continue to grow in popularity. Although 2021 saw a slight downtick in the number of issued design patents ...

Graphic designer. Visual designer. User interface (UI) designer. User experience (UX) designer. Web designer. How many different designer job titles are there? And are they all just fancy names for ...

There are thirty special function registers in the PSMC configuration setup. Setting all thirty registers with the appropriate values for desired operation can be a daunting task. The PSMC Designer ...