Her icons and graphics—many of which were patented through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office —for Apple, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and other clients have earned her the Lifetime Achievement ...

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 ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published new guidance in the Federal Register on November 17, 2023, that clarifies the requirements for design patents of computer-generated images, icons ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other ...

Susan Kare has led a diverse career as a graphic designer, but her reputation is preceded by an early milestone: she designed the indelible icons and fonts for the original Apple Macintosh. Her ...

Graphical user interfaces Graphical user interface is sometimes shortened to GUI. The user chooses an option usually by pointing a mouse at an icon representing that option.