Authors:
Aaron Marcus
Icons and symbols have been part of the user's experience of computing for decades, and many people tend to take them for granted as part of graphical user interfaces. But they weren't always there. The Apple Macintosh popularized "icons" as the slightly misnamed term for these visual signs, and by the mid-1980s they became part of graphical user interface paradigms and associated with the desktop metaphor. Windowing environments like the Macintosh, Windows, Open Look, Motif, NeXT, and other desktop and workstation platforms all adopted variations of the trash icon, folder icons, document icons, and specific application icons. Today, most…
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