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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s our own fault. We all asked Apple to dramatically change the look and feel of the iOS operating system, which, until yesterday, remained largely unchanged since the introduction of the original ...

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, ...

If you have dozens of folders on your Mac, it's easy to lose track of where you put which files. macOS offers a built-in color coding system that can help with this, but if you really want to make ...

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 ...