Daring FireballJan 6
‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus
‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’

Link to: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

Daring Fireball
Show threadGraham Dobie

@daringfireball @gruber

The folks at @ia wrote about this back in 2016, also prompted by Apple’s design decisions.

https://ia.net/topics/on-icons

They even made an icon-zapping space invader game, which is still available!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ia-iconic/id1101257181

On Icons

Icons save space. Icons look crisp. Icons give quick answers to hard questions: How do we make it nicer? How can we brand it? How do we make it more fun? We ♥ icons. Until they start messing with our minds.

iA
Jan 7 at 9:38amIvory for iOS