Susan Kare is an artist, graphic designer and pioneer of pixel art; she created many of the graphical interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s as a key member of the Mac software design team, and continued to work as creative director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in 1985.
In the video below, Susan Kare walks us through some key points regarding the design of icons and symbols that was created throughout her career.