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 ...

I hate the new Instagram icon. You can disagree, but you're still wrong. Instagram finally changed its app icon this week and, boy, did the Internet react. The iconic instant camera icon -- with a ...

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 ...

The icons of Chrome and Gmail are simple, and it is distinctive that they are designed to make it easy to understand what the icon shows by just using it. Google's graphic designer Roger Odon said ...

The hamburger icon is a classic. Even if you don’t know it by that name, its three black bars are as familiar as your mouse’s cursor—a constant companion on your cyber journey since the day you got ...

Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the word referred not to machines, but to people (mostly women in order to save costs) hired as human ...