It all started with a tweet. The filler cap indicator icon got another five minutes of fame. It is the perfect occasion to remind ourselves that innovation and human-centered design can have an ...

Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

When I was reinstalling Windows 10 a few weeks ago, a thought occurred: I miss the old blinking network activity indicator, which used to give you an easy way to confirm your connection is working ...

When you plug a USB-C hub into your new iPad Pro, you will see a new icon appear in the iOS status bar, up on the right by the battery, Wi-Fi, and LTE status icons. It’s a little blue lozenge with an ...

In earlier days, computers displayed physical indicator lights for Caps Lock, Num Lock, and other keyboard keys so that we knew their status, but that is not always the case today. In this post, we ...

Remember the old days when the network activity icon was a pair of monitors, and they used to blink? It also had its advantages. Like when we used to hover the mouse over it, we immediately used to ...

YouTube introduces a visual AI indicator icon on mobile screens to help users identify AI-generated videos and synthetic ...

Privacy is a big focus of Android 12, and one of the ways that Google is addressing it is with better notification of sensor usage. While it’s not live quite yet ...