Usability & Beyond
Musings on Design, Usability and much more.
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The Happy Mac icon has become a cult figure for Mac enthusiasts like me. It was designed by Susan Kare in the early 1980s and remained unchanged until Mac OS 9, when it was updated to 8-bit colour.
When the Macintosh boots into OS9 or lower, it makes a chimes and the screen turns grey. After a few seconds, a Happy Mac icon will appear, followed by the Mac OS splash screen.
The Happy Mac icon was removed with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar which replaced it with a large grey Apple logo.
