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 ...

When Apple updated the iTunes 10 icon earlier this year, it sparked huge controversy among Mac users everywhere — many branded the new icon ugly, lifeless, and unconventional. The debate showed that ...

How to make the most of your Mac menubar by rearranging, deleting and adding app icons — with or without third party utilities. If you find yourself with an ever-increasing number of small icons on ...

Liquid Glass isn't just coming to your iPhone-- It's coming to just about every Apple product with a screen you can think of, including your Mac. MacOS 26 Tahoe will bring the design overhaul, which ...

The age of wildly personalizing the look of macOS might be over, but customizing app icons is still fun, and the phenomenon is more popular than ever since the advent of Home Screen widgets and custom ...

Our poll results are in: virtually no TidBITS readers use clear or tinted icons on the Mac or the iPhone. But the real issue ...

Mac OS X only: Free app LiteIcons customizes the look of your Mac's system icons. Just drag and drop replacement icons directly onto your current system icons to change them. If you go overboard, ...

There’s a lot to love about macOS Big Sur, but one thing that’s dividing Mac fans is its redesigned app icons. Some look good enough to eat. Others are so ugly they’ll make you want to use Windows ...

There's a lot to love about Mac, but one of its quirkier features is how easy it is to change icons for files and folders. By default, a file is depicted by a piece of paper, while folders are -- well ...

Microsoft has issued a third release of its private beta program for Office 2011 for Mac, which is expected to reach production by the end of the year. The new release overhauls the suite's icons, ...

Apple hides some of its best features through obscurity, not intentionally. For many years, you have been able to select and change the icon for any file, folder, volume, or drive. But it’s a ...