Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps
While icons on iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) have always been rounded squares, and rounded-square icons have existed on Apple platforms for over 20 years now, Mac app icons have historically exhibited a variety of unique silhouettes, which helped identification alongside other visual tools like color, lighting, and dimensionality.
Apple Design Resources
Design apps accurately and quickly using official Apple design templates, icon production templates, color guides, and more.
Phosphor Icons
A flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really.
The making of a product icon | Figma Blog
Product Designer Tim Van Damme shares his thoughtful approach to Figma icon design and the creative exploration that shapes each final result.
Logos are Dead
A logo isn’t a strategy. We see many brands obsessing over a symbol while ignoring how they actually talk, feel, or connect. A logo is just the “period” at the end of the sentence. The real work is the sentence itself: your voice, your values, and the experience. Logos are
The Making of Cursor's Icons
A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world's favourite coding agent.
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Hugeicons - The Beautiful Icon Library
Hugeicons offers 54,000+ icons across 10 styles for Figma, React, Font, and more. Fully customizable, beautifully crafted, and built for modern design & development needs.
Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh
Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points:
