GUIs That Don't Look Like GUIs?

Muttley asks: "There are plenty of projects out there to provide Free Software replacements for products like like TiVo, ReplayTV or AudioRequest. However the one thing that these replacements don't have, AFAIK, is a TV-based interface which doesn't look anything like the standard GUIs we all are familiar with (see the screenshots). Are there any projects out there that would make it very simple to do this sort of interface? It wouldn't need to handle multiple windows open at the same time just some simple widgets for doing simple interfaces but it would have to look pretty with lots of eye candy (alpha blended text and so on). Talisman goes part of the way but it's for Windows. How does Tivo do it and are they going to release the technology as Free Software? Or is there some way of doing it with existing window managers and widget Sets?"

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Assorted User Interface Info

[SEWilco]

• A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design.
• Graphical User Interfaces gallery.
• Human Computer Interfaces (graphics oriented)
• Towards the Anti-Mac (note the comments -- is the Adventure Shell non-GUI or only moving the images into your head?)