Susan Kare is a graphic designer based on San Francisco, California. If you’ve ever used a computer before, you have most likely seen software icons designed by her. She graduated from New York University with a Ph.D. in fine arts. She began to work at a museum, and although creative, it wasn’t her thing. She then decided to work for Apple in 1982 and was the only one in charge of graphics. When working for Apple, she designed the Macintosh with a face, as seen above. About a decade later, she decided to create her own graphics studio called Susan Kare Design. She recently worked as the Creative Director at Pinterest, a well known website and app about creativity and inspiration. In the past she has also worked for Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, Facebook, and now Niantic Labs.

Susan Kare has a ton of involvement in all things technology, symbolically. She has created icons for software for hundreds of different companies and was the creator of the command symbol. She is known as the “woman who gave the Macintosh a smile.” She also designed a bunch of fonts for Apple. Overall, Kare is one of the most significant technologists of the modern world.