To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.

With their overabundance of colourful, eye-catching apps, it comes as little surprise that we spend a quarter of our waking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital icons are everywhere – and usually, we interpret these visual symbols in the blink of an eye. Who today doesn’t know that ...