irelephant [he/him]Its ok, skype was killed off anyway.
nescI think that matching logos with some kind of rainbow puke that’s means nothing is one of the biggest sins of modern designers.
Not exactly nothing, all the Office icons are visual representations of the main thing you can do with the app. A sheet with lines on it for Word, a sheet of cells for Excel, a very impressive diagram for Powerpoint …
Access is admittedly bit unclear but somehow people have always visualized databanks as cylindrical silos. Because databanks’re used to ferment the data before being fed to the C suite (C is for cattle).
WIZARD POPE💫The older icons were more obvious though.
I guess we agree then.^^ You saying “the old icons were clearer” is essentially goalpost-moving over thread op saying “the new icon mean nothing”.
I am not goalpost moving. Just pointing out that your argument of the icons being clear is valid for the older icons. The new ones are just coloured blobs.
I said “visual representations of”. I never used the word “clear” (I did in my second comment, but only to paraphrase that you said “obvious”). And no, they’re not “blobs” (i.e. amorphous spherical things), they are primary shapes. Those shapes do represent the primary function/interface of each app in some way.
I call them blobs mainly because they are not distinct enough.
I actually didn’t realize until y’all’s thread here that the new icons actually do contain a stripped down version of those older, clearer indications. I’ve looked at them many, many times and just saw meaningless vague color gradients.
They are bad 🤷♂️