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Susan Kare
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5 total works indexed
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,290x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,899x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,222x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data
· 2013 · cited 20,042x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-02-05 ) February 5, 1954 (age 72) , Ithaca, New York , U.S.
- Education
- Mount Holyoke College ( BA ) , New York University ( MA , PhD )
- Occupation
- Graphic designer
- Known for
- Contemporary American design
- Notable work
- GUI design language and product launch of the Macintosh
- Spouse
- Jay Tannenbaum ( divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2011 )
- Relatives
- Jordin Kare (brother)
- Website
- kare .com
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Described at

Susan Kare. Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icons. 1982–83 | MoMA
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Encyclopedic overview
Happy Mac icon (late 1980s) Susan Kare (/kɛər/ KAIR; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and creative director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She has worked as a design consultant to Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, Facebook, and Pinterest. As of 2023, Kare is employed at Niantic Labs. As a pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant designers of modern technology.
Early life and education
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