• Concept used on desktop computer graphical user interfaces. The computer interface is a conceptual metaphor of a writing desk.
  • The desktop metaphor is characterized by windows and hierarchy of folders. A computer screen contains many windows, and each window hosts an application.
  • The desktop metaphor treats the computer monitor as if it is the top of the user's desk, upon which objects such as documents and folders of documents can be...
  • Your computer is an old writing desk. ... The desktop metaphor. Interface designers used metaphors to give meaning to their newly created environments.
  • The desktop is the basis of so-called desktop metaphor. On the desktop more icons (pictograms ) can be arranged in the rule.
  • The desktop metaphor is modelled after a real life desk with files and folders on top and useful items (calculator, trash bin...) nearby.
  • A desktop metaphor is the representation of familiar desktop items in a user interface to help make the capabilities of a computer clear.
  • A comic from another world, made from stolen things. Desktop Metaphor. ... GeoCities GIFs dance for you, in comic form! Desktop Metaphor.
  • It did so using a metaphor, that of the desk. ... It's a simple metaphor. When Windows was introduced, few people had desktop computers.