John Siracusa😠
Hynek Schlawack@siracusa it’s an empty salt shaker now 😳
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦always_has_been 🌍👨🏻🚀
Jon_Alper@siracusa They keep using that word “improved”, I do not think it means what they think it means.
Odin@siracusa ”improved” 🤮
Jer Clarke@siracusa Honestly this is the first big icon change I really like 😅
The iconography is clear and distinct, and the "glassification" doesn't ruin it too much, ironically, since the old one has literal glass in it.
That said, I bet what I like is just the conceptual simplification, and a version that shows just the loupe but in "Sequoia-style” would be even sharper and clearer.
The Iconfactory@siracusa Yep, agreed. This (any many other app icons) could be so much better than they are. Hopefully they will improve during the beta. Wish we could help Apple. 🤓
Andrew Abdalian@Iconfactory and just what makes YOU an expert on icon design?? Oh wait... @siracusa
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽@siracusa Now, it's an empty shot glass! Which you'll need if you look at these icons.
Jonathan Isom
Josh Biggs@siracusa the OG OS X icons were the best. The TextEdit icon was amazing.
ByMatthewPorter@siracusa the new one makes me think of an employer-mandated drug test.
monkeydom, Ar.T@siracusa If improve means fit in the style.
Sadly it really isn't an improvement other than platform consistency across devices.
Wondering what the backpedaling will look like over the next few years. I mean, they always course correct. I'm still angry that they made tint color per app a thing vs. leaving apps the power to use colors in icons as they fit.
FreediverX
Matt@siracusa absolutely not an improvement. The new one doesn’t convey what it is at all
Calum@matthubble @siracusa Neither did the old one. Even if you knew what a loupe was and what it looked like, it wasn't even being used to examine the photo.
It's not bad tbh
nutsmuggler@siracusa when I saw this I thought they were kidding ☹️
Arcterex@siracusa That's my teapot
Aaron Brown
m_eiman@siracusa it’s a bit funny that they removed the lens effect 🙃
marceloexc@siracusa OMG A BLACK CYLINDRICAL UFO!!!!
Daniel Liu@siracusa When all the application icons changed to squircles my miss-rate for command-tabbing skyrocketed. It’s horrible!
Greg Woods
Chris Finazzo
Drew Pickard@siracusa I am OK with this concept, I am not ok with shoving everything into a round rect
Arcticulate@siracusa 1 Infinite sterile loupe
Aaron M
hyperjeff@siracusa it’s also an inapt metaphor for what Preview is
obscurestar@siracusa Wake me when they turn the maginfier over and fill it with whiskey.
Ava 
@siracusa @ultranurd This newfound focus on gradients is going to be a tough pill to swallow
Nicolas Ward 
Jaime Creixems@siracusa the one place where we had liquid glass before.
It died to become the entire UI. Long live the Preview loupe.
Don Whiteside@siracusa how can they not see how much cheaper that looks?
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈@siracusa
Honestly, it looks like they went back in time instead of visually forward 😹
Honestly, it looks like they went back in time instead of visually forward 😹
Dominic Nieto@siracusa honestly the new one is better.
David Nelson@siracusa In isolation I don’t hate it, but without a photograph as part of the scene it’s not so obvious that the object is a loupe. I could imagine someone thinking it’s a light fixture or carafe, for example.
Of course these days I bet a dwindling number of people even know what a loupe is. It probably means nothing to the majority of people who grew up with digital photography. May as well be an icon of a floppy disk.
Thomas P. Moonis
@siracusa I always assumed the preview icon was an ink bottle. I am only now noticing the “preview 10x” text in the new design, which was apparently already there in the old one. Now I’m not sure what it’s supposed to represent at all.
Beej@siracusa Oh shit, that’s a loupe in the original icon?
I thought it was some weird USB stick pointing 3D-style towards the user. I could never figure out WHY, and frankly, I was too busy trying to get shit done using the app to even care to look at it even closer.
I suppose that proves that it doesn’t matter what an app’s icon is, as long as it’s heavily differentiated from the others. I could always find Preview in the Dock, even if I had no idea what was in the icon.
Jonathan Fischer@siracusa Can you imagine how that would have gone over during a live presentation instead of the pre-recorded stuff we get now?
Rui Carmo@siracusa "improved" is the new "courage"
Andy@siracusa All of these are awful. Please raise hell so that Apple walks this horror back.
ada@siracusa 😿 Icon Design in OSX Aqua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UXapXQBy8
Apple WWDC 2001 Session 130 Designing and Using Aqua Icons 2001
Robin Monks@siracusa “No, mom, click the shot glass icon…”
@siracusa The most pathetic thing about this specific change is the older icon looks a LOT glassier than the new one.
Jose Vasquez@siracusa New icons look lazy. The backgrounds remind me of early Photoshop gradients.
Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸@siracusa just gonna assume this is an app that facilitates taking urine samples
Voline¡¡Down with the tyranny of the squircle!!
medium rare bird@siracusa it has been optimized. pray you are not also optimized subject to the same (extremely secret) criteria
Tara@siracusa I think of you everytime is see the new Calibre icon in my dock.
Dave Hassar@siracusa The one app icon that had Liquid Glass effects already, now gone
Cai@siracusa Pray we do not improve it further.
Garret 
@siracusa Ah yes, the upside down juice glass app.
Ivo 🇪🇺@siracusa the new Preview icon has less glass look than the old one 😅
Mark Dreger@siracusa In my career as a city planner, I try to avoid the words “improve” and “improvement”, as opinions differ and one’s words could be taken as dismissive.
y2k38@siracusa ecce mono
Mieszko Ślusarczyk@siracusa they keep using words but they don’t seem to know what they mean
Nathan King