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

When you spend hours at your computer every day, the slightest unexpected change on your desktop can throw you off balance. The blue highlighting of desktop icons can happen accidentally in Windows XP ...

After making changes to your computer, you may find that the text beneath your desktop icons is highlighted by a blue square. While this doesn't cause any real harm, it can be visually unattractive ...

The Windows desktop is iconic. Some of the backgrounds, the green rolling hills featured in Windows XP, have even become a bit of a meme. However, I do one thing very differently: I have completely ...

Perhaps nothing stirs up Visual Studio developers like design changes to their familiar UIs, especially fundamental redesigns of iconography. Last year, when Microsoft unveiled new icons for the ...

Risking the wrath of recalcitrant developers, Microsoft is changing the icon scheme for its Visual Studio Code editor. Finicky coders in the past have been known to rise up in verbal arms upon any ...