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).
Alright, how do you differentiate between W X P N and another P? They look exactly the same and you need look very carefully to understand that blue rectangle is sheet with lines on it and green rectangle is sheet with cells. That’s exactly what I was writing about in previous message.
I am not going to argue these are the pinnacle of design. (I do happen to like the idea of shaded segments though, but that’s just opinion.)
But they’re much better than whatever Adobe came up with. Xdddd
Two things can be bad at once. 🙃
Sure. But I’d say there’s “truly bad” and “acceptable” here. :)
The part that kills me is that a lot of these apps are for graphics and graphic design of one flavor or another. But it’s like they did anything but hire someone to use their tools to fullest on this. Its mind-boggling.