Susan Kare

We all use those everyday computer icons, save, documents, trash can. Susan Kate was the one who brought those symbols to our screens, creating the many of the 1980 macintosh symbols and elements. Even though the technology of the time restrained the quality, she used the pixels to create iconic and bold symbols, which still stick to this day. Her designs are bold, using imagery to convey the meaning, a small floppy disk symbolising save and a printer for print. Her designs are clever and made computers accessible to everyone without needing words. She revolutionised the computer screen opening it up to a much wider audience and making it much easier to navigate as she didn’t over complicate her designs, keeping them simplistic. She chose relevant symbols which everyone recognised and therefore whilst technology may have updated and times have changed her designs have stuck with them, moulding to fit the cleaner graphics and screens but still remaining recognisably hers.