Literature

General

• Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, and Randy Pausch, Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools

History

• History of the Graphical User Interfaces, Wikipedia

Prototyping

• Beadoin-Lafon and Mackay, Prototyping tools and techniques
• Westerlund, Design Space Exploration
• Lindquist, Perspectives on Cooperative Design

Java, JavaScript and jQuery

• Java: Oracle Java Tutorials
• JavaScript: W3Schools Tutorial and Debugging
• jQuery: W3Schools Tutorial and API Documentation

Layout

• HTML: W3Schools HTML tutorial and W3Schools CSS tutorial
• Java Swing: Using Swing Components and Laying Out Components Within a Container
• Android: XML Layouts and Common Layout Objects

Interaction

• HTML: Drag and Drop in HTML 5, W3Schools HTML events, W3Schools JS Events and W3Schools jQuery Events
• Java Swing: Drag and Drop and Data Transfer and Writing Event Listeners
• Android: Input Events, Dialogs, Notifications, Drag and Drop

Model-View-Controller

• Robert Eckstein, Java SE Application Design With MVC
• Alex Netkachov, MVC with JavaScript (a bit more detailed and advanced MVC)
• Russell East, Overview of the ModelView – ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and data-binding

Other good refernces

• Olsen, Developing User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
• Johnson, GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers , Morgan Kaufman, 2000.
• MIT Course, User Interface Design and Implementation