Maintaining a cohesive visual language across a growing product ecosystem is a constant battle. Design teams often start with a lean, curated set of interface elements. As the product scales into new ...

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

Facebook-owned Instagram has just been given a visual overhaul. The photo-and-video-sharing application introduced a new icon and updated its Android and iOS apps' interface with a black-and-white ...

Apple releases Icon Composer 2 and SF Symbols 8 betas after WWDC 2026, bringing refraction effects, specular highlights, and ...

One of the most notable changes in MIUI 15 is the new look of the icons. The new icons are designed to be more modern and visually appealing. The icons focus on clarity and a simple style. The icons ...

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 ...