Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary

I recently came across this talk of her, and highly recommend watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ she explains a bit about the history of her work.

One of the main reasons I find her so inspiring is that her work clearly shows why adding a great designer to a great team of engineers can result in ever lasting impact.

As a designer myself, I work with teams of engineers (mostly in the B2B SaaS Space [1]) who write great software but don't have the skills to design a delightful experience for their users. It's a shame there are still too many teams of talented engineers out there who don't see the importance of great design.

[1] http://fairpixels.pro

You can also own your very own Dogcow, signed by Susan.

https://kareprints.com/spotted-dog-on-green/

> In 1983, the dog icon had been created by Susan Kare as the glyph for "z", as part of the Cairo font. Later, when designing the classic Mac OS "Page Setup" print dialog box, an example image was required to demonstrate the orientation and color of the paper.[2] HCI engineer Annette Wagner made the decision to use that dog as a starting point, editing it and creating a larger version with spots to be more suitable for demonstrating various printing options. The new dog graphic had a more bovine look.

It claims that Susan Kare made the dog icon but Annette Wagner made dogcow based on it.

http://shop.cooperhewitt.org/p/3953/evan-roth-solitaire-deck...

(high five)

That friendly box that was the original Macintosh retailed for $2,495 in 1984 dollars. You can get a MacBook Air for $999 in 2018 dollars.

With Kare's icons, even the pixelation looked cute.

[1] I was briefly enchanted with GEM because it made my DOS machine look and feel like a Mac, but when I compared it to an actual Mac it looked horrible.

This is what GEM looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager#/...

And this is what System 1 (original Mac OS) looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_1#/media/File:Apple_Mac...

It's a shame they replaced the colors with a grey-in-grey nothingness starting in OS version 2.

Guess that just shows that one can't argue about taste :-)

[0] http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga1wb13.png

if it's the end of a line of code followed quickly by another line of code, i just keep going. if there's a spot in the code where i decide to separate with a blank line, it's like a natural break point that deserves being saved. of the voices in my head, the one i tend to listen to the most is the one in the back screaming "Save, save often"!

Only the ones that worked with buggy text editors prone to crashing.

Compute!'s SpeedScript, and later Paperback Writer both used C= S to save a document. And back in eight bit days, computers had more crashes than a wet NASCAR track. You learned strategies to keep from losing an entire afternoon's work.

Doing business with kareprints.com is a joy. Highly recommended.

> When Jobs was asked what it was like to work with Rand, he said, “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’”

https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand