jmjmMay 22, 2023

Lessons, living with parents with dementia: when an app on their phone spontaneously changes it's icon, it's a fucking disaster.

Some Google engineer launched a feature that got them a promotion and now my mom can't use her phone anymore. Silicon Valley is incapable of imagining a user who isn't a 27 year old white man.

Show threadPaul Houle
@jmjm I for one have always found icons on mobile to be utterly meaningless
May 22, 2023 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadjmjmMay 23, 2023
@UP8 yes.
Show threadPaul HouleMay 23, 2023
@jmjm people always ask "what color should i pick?" but the most important think about color is value or dark vs light and if you look at that screenshot in greyscale you see right away that those icons fall flat because they have very limited contrast... even for normally sighted people a design that isn't meaningful in monochrome isn't meaningful