FORM MEETS DYSFUNCTION

The first app icon was just a tiny scream. Which is why folders still feel like trapped emotions.

✗ FAKE
App icons are small graphic symbols representing applications. Early graphical interfaces, such as those at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, introduced icons. None was a scream.

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