In the tech industry, design consistency isn’t just undervalued; oftentimes, it’s an object of outright scorn. That’s why, for instance, Apple consistently gets grief for releasing new iPhones that ...

Illustrator Kyle Steed’s sketchy looking icons are the cure for anyone bored by chrome-drenched, perfectly polished user interfaces. But that’s not to say you can’t find stuff in Steed’s set that’s ...

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Susan Kare designed pictorial symbols that enabled non-technical users to operate a computer, a great contrast to previous screens with “command line” interfaces that required knowing code. Photo of ...

The Recycle Bin has been a staple of Windows since its debut in Windows 95. Apart from the regular visible overhauls of the Recycle Bin icon, the feature has remained largely unchanged throughout the ...

Recent patent cases have made it more difficult to obtain utility patent protection for some of the functional aspects of computer software. One way to, at least partially, overcome this is to ...

Microsoft is changing its Azure icon from its current cluster of four squares to a blue "A" image. The new blue Azure icon will get added across Microsoft's sites "in the coming weeks," a Friday ...

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The following instructions will help you show or hide common icons on the desktop in Windows 11: If you want to arrange the desktop icons by name (in alphabetical order), right-click in the empty ...

FREMONT, Calif.—Blackmagic Design today unveiled new features for its Blackmagic Cloud, including a new icon view with thumbnails that can be scrubbed to preview footage and a new inspector panel for ...