Apple redesigned its Creator Studio app icons to match macOS Tahoe’s rounded square style, creating such confusion that the company published an official support document to help users identify them.

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 ...

What if the apps you use every day suddenly felt fresher, more intuitive, and visually striking? Apple’s latest redesign of its app icons is doing just that—redefining how users interact with their ...

Apple recently released a new version of Creator Studio and, with it, a set of new app icons. So far, so unremarkable. But these icons are confusing – so confusing that Apple felt compelled to release ...

macOS Tahoe quietly retires the old Mac drive icon in favor of a sleeker, SSD-inspired design. Tuesday's developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26 brought a bit of sad news. The old Macintosh HD icon ...

Apple today updated its Apple Store app for the iPhone and iPad, introducing a new icon that better matches the Liquid Glass design changes added in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. The new version of the icon ...

As a general rule, you shouldn’t install beta versions of new Apple software on devices you depend on. If you do, you should do so with the understanding that this is, well, beta software, which means ...

To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.