When Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, it was the dawn of an era. Screens would soon begin to take over people’s lives — an early precursor to the always-on, Zoom-to-Zoom world we’re living in today. Men, especially ones named Steve and Bill, get a lot of credit for heralding this modern era of information technology. Susan Kare, for instance, made the original icons, graphic elements and fonts for the Macintosh operating system: the smiling Mac, the trash can, the system-error bomb. That was long before “design thinking” became the talk of Silicon Valley, before her domain was sleekly rebranded as U.I.

Source: International New York Times March 18, 2021 09:00 UTC