Apple Inc. has developed an enhancement to its Mac OS X Finder user interface that will allow for different-sized icons within the same window as a means of representing their importance, a recent ...

Designers argue that Apple’s new macOS Tahoe icons make menus cluttered and inconsistent, reducing clarity and usability in ...

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of ...

Computer users on Mac, Windows or Linux must take icons for granted. But the standards for these interface elements keep changing. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard offers new challenges for icon designers.

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's macOS Tahoe menu icons break long-standing design rules, creating visual clutter and inconsistency that slows user ...

As we discussed in our OS X Lion review, Apple’s latest operating system is an evolutionary step forward, a milestone in the company’s desktop software history that innovates old concepts and user ...

Live from the WWDC keynote presentation, Apple just unveiled the next version of of the Mac OS X and with it introduced some big changes for the operating system including a significantly redesigned ...