Is there anything called GUI standards?

Question

GUIs are one of the important areas in most of the software products. I would like to know whether there is something called GUI Standards that defines the best practices in GUI

Answer 1

Depends what you're doing. Nearly every platform has their own official and usually a few unofficial ones.

That's the beauty of standards if you don't like it pick another one

. However GUI is not easy to standardise as there are multiple IO mechanisms - visual, non visual, one way, interactive etc.

No one standard could fit all - except perhaps and ISO or another standards body and that as we know will be obsolete before it's even completed a first draft.

On the other hand there are various psychologically based user experience techniques that are slowly becoming de rigeur standards.