Louie Mantia, Jr.3d ago

Not that anyone cares *when* I did this, but I made this 15 days ago.

It doesn’t seem hard to me to do this.

As a person who used to make app icons at Apple, I don’t think the situation is that the designer doesn’t know, but rather the decision maker who is supposed to have taste doesn’t know. (If this person isn’t Alan Dye, then that’s even more embarrassing for him that he’s not the person making that call.)

Also, slightly purpler is better. More Mac, less Mail / Safari like I said before.

Show threadJade3d ago
@louie Not trying to be a jerk, but I wonder if Apple ever considered eliminating that icon. Probably more than 95 percent of Apple devices that have a file system use a folder icon named Files now, so it seems like a needless friction point for new Mac users coming from iPhones or iPads.
Show threadDrew Pickard3d ago
@OldManJade @louie
When Apple removed color from the Sidebar the speed at which I find the folder I am looking for massively dropped and has never recovered.
Color and form is a huge part of how I navigate screens. I am STILL angry about that change.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.2d ago
@drewpickard Sorry about that. That was partly my fault. Steve asked for us to remove the icons altogether in the iTunes sidebar and I made single-color shaded icons as an effort to retain icons at all. He approved those, and later the whole system followed suit.
Show threadDrew Pickard2d ago
@louie
This is interesting because I always assumed the driver of this trajctory toward a white void was Jony!
Still hurts tho. 😭
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.2d ago
@drewpickard We had those grayish-blue sidebar icons for a while before they were ultimately replaced by SF Symbols. I think Steve had thought the source list was starting to look messy. Perhaps the better solution would have been to tidy it up rather than remove visual cues, but— a fight for an alternate timeline I suppose.
Show threadDrew Pickard
@louie an important detail I forgot: the colored icons I used were all custom (a lot of icon factory of course). I got by with the various “hacks” for a few years but then those eventually were abandoned.
Thanks for the backstory. It is still wild to me how much in the details he was.
Jun 26 at 3:24pmIvory for iOS