Behind the interface of the Apple products of the 1980s, there's Susan Kare. Kare started work at Apple Computers in 1982, and she worked on the interface, graphics, and fonts for these early Apple computers, laying the ground work for what Apple Computers would eventually become.
Most of Kare's icons are still being used today by Apple Computers thanks to their simplicity and ability to let the user know what the icon does. Icons for the interface of an OS are incredibly important since that is what the user will be using, and to make sure it's user friendly, icons must be readable and readily be able to explain what they do as concisely as possible, and Kare's icons were able to do that.
She also invented multiple typefaces for use by Apple, most notably the Geneva typeface (used for the first 4 generations of Ipods.) It's a simple sans serif
that is effective in its readability.
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