Who designed the RSS Symbol?
May 3rd, 2007
This little orange rectangle with the curved radio wave lines has become ubiquitous on the web. A quick google doesn’t reveal much other than the fact that it was used by Mozilla and adopted by Microsoft in 2005 .
The symbol has made the transition from design concept to becoming part of the web’s lexicon - quite a big move. It’s used in the address bar in Firefox, on the tool bar in IE7 (slightly adapted) and all over the web beside links to RSS feeds.
I’d be interested to know who originally designed it, and what the design process was - were there earlier contenders that got ruled out?
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