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 ...

App Review appears to be more strictly enforcing rules regarding the use of Apple intellectual property in third party apps, which now includes emoji. Developers are reporting that their apps are now ...

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 options as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Search engine giant, Google has initiated a design change in one of the company’s most used application — Maps. The company has redesigned the user interface of the Google Maps app. Google has updated ...

Instagram, the popular image-sharing social network owned by Facebook Inc., got rid of its vintage camera logo and redesigned its mobile apps with a simpler, whiter user interface. The rebooted brand ...

Apple's upcoming new release of iTunes 11, due by the end of October (and likely to launch with the iPad mini), suggests several new user interface concepts that are likely to also be adopted its ...