Thank you for such a detailed response.

It completely depends on what applications you are designing the GUI for. I notice for instance that none of your designs shows clocks, which would make it unsuitable for playing against an engine (or remote opponent) or playing engines against each other ...

@Lucasart I disagree with your comments. A lot of programming does start with designing the interface. What you described do not appear to be "the real problem" of designing a GUI. I am interested in designing a GUI, I'm not expecting others to do the coding. In fact, I don't think the drawing is ...

Not long ago I started thinking about what I would like to see in a Chess GUI, I'd love to hear thoughts from others.

I started to design a Chess GUI concept (just out of interest, I'm not planning to develop it... though if any developers are here and wish to collaborate let me know). So far there ...

Great thread.

As superficial as it sounds, I'm really into simple, clean and intuitive interfaces. I don't like 3D graphics or skeuomorphic design.

Features I like to see are:
1. Managing my games
2. Easy entry/pasting of games
3. Easy pasting of positions
4. I'd like to see more metrics for ...