Susan Kare

Susan Kare

Susan has a big love for User Interface Graphics is a digital design practice in San Francisco, she is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. Kare worked at Apple Computer starting in 1982. She was originally hired into the Macintosh software group to design user interface graphics and fonts. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in 1985, working as the Creative Director. She is the designer of many typefaces, icons, and original marketing material for the original Macintosh operating system. Indeed, descendants of her ground-breaking work can still be seen in many computer graphics tools and accessories, especially icons such as the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket.