Audie Cornish talks with Austin Carr, design and technology writer at Fast Company, about Apple's use of skeuomorphic design. It's when an object retains the look of something old and familiar like ...

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Yes, you can customize your Mac’s hard disk icons in just a few steps in MacOS. Why use Apple’s boring default icons when you can use your own? If you find yourself a little bit bored with the default ...

Do you want to see something that makes my blood boil every time I see it? Here, take a look: This is the icon that's on the Save button in Microsoft Word 2010. A floppy disk. Seriously? Did it fall ...

When it comes to tech fashions and trends, icons are at the forefront. From skeuomorphism to flat, icons have come a long way since Windows 3.1 and Susan Kare’s celebrated designs for the Apple ...

A few days ago, I was preparing my laptop for some upcoming travels. I normally only use that particular machine when I am on the road, so it had been a few weeks since it had been used. Even so, it ...

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The results are more subtle than you might expect from a 25+ year visual update. The changes are surprisingly subtle. Most of the new icons are extremely similar to the nearly 30-year old versions ...