Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

Apple redesigned its Creator Studio app icons to match macOS Tahoe’s rounded square style, creating such confusion that the company published an official support document to help users identify them.

As well as a refreshed new look for system components like buttons and tabbars, the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 also extends to app icons. For the first time since iOS 7, Apple has redrawn all of ...

To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty ...

AirDrop’s icon is getting some fresh love from Apple this year. iOS 18’s blue curves on a white background—a classic, but very basic look—has been replaced by a new blue iOS 26 icon with depth and ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...