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An application icon and its document icon should read as a verb and a noun: the tool looks active, and the document resembles the tool.

Drawn from what Susan Kare said

design
What this subject means

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Susan Kare

    Graphic designer and type designer

    and I like the idea that since it was a process it looked kind of active and um and then it could be paired with a document that resembled it so our system was kind of a verb and a noun

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