A very quick and easy GUI can be made using QT widgets and C++ programming.
QT is a cross platform windows development environment for Linux/Windows and Mac. Elements in QT are Widgets which can contain anything form plots, buttons or text fields. They are classes. You can define your own widgets or use ready made ones.
A layout in QT is defined in a declarative way as layout classes forexample horizontal or vertical layouts.From existing widgets like QwtThermo you can get a thermometer widget and then set its size and color accordingly using its functions.
With various available classes like QLabel and Qfont you can change font size, colors and add labels to your GUI window.
Downloading the source code and after installing the required libraries mentioned in instructions above. You can get this handy GUI up and running in no time and can play around with it to make it your own!