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The hamburger icon is a classic. Even if you don't know it by that name, its three black bars are as familiar as your mouse's cursor—a constant companion on your cyber journey since the day you got your first computer. But who designed this icon?

That little three-lined button is the devil. Whether you call it a side menu, navigation drawer, or a hamburger, hiding your features off-screen behind a nondescript icon in the corner is usually a poor mobile design choice. Interaction theory, A/B tests, and the evolution of some of the top apps in the world all support the same thesis: The hamburger button is bad for engagement, and you should probably replace it with a tab bar or other navigation scheme.

I’ve noticed a worrying trend in web navigation lately. More and more websites are hiding their navigation – at desktop resolutions – under a single button, often the 3-bar “hamburger” icon.

You asked, Font Awesome delivers with 11 shiny new icons in version 4.0. Want to request new icons? Here's how. Need vectors or want to use on the desktop? Check the cheatsheet.

Icon fonts are awesome. Other than the fact that they have to be single color, they are superior to using images as icons in every way. But which do you choose? There are loads of different sets out there. I'm going to attempt to round them all up here and keep this updated (this post has already been updated several times).

The Gesture Markup Language (GML) is the world’s first markup language for multitouch gesture-based interactions.  This extensible language not only shapes how applications are developed but it allows developers to explore new interaction paradigms and user experiences.

Default Icon is a repository of minimal icons based on black color. It can be used for UI design on web,  portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Android compatible devices, other smartphones, etc.), desktop applications, and generally any kind of electronic or mechanic machinery interface.

Vector based icons created to aid in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces.

This site is intended for everyone, whether you are advanced modder, novice or new switcher. Just to share the love of customization to reach more people than we can. We want to make the customization within the reach of everybody. Because for a novice, customizing his Mac or iPhone is not very easy. How to change his icons, create them, change menubar icons, his dock, his stack icons,...

I've been very privileged throughout these last few years in being able to work with some fantastic people in the area of icon and UI design. This website's original intention was to showcase lots of icons i'd been working on for clients, and also to host my freeware icon sets.

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The Share Icon is becoming the de facto standard visual representation for sharing content from any source to multiple destinations: over email, to bookmark or memetracker sites, to your friends on social networks, and more every day.

Jesse Dodds is a designer who creates print media, web and interface elements.