Florian Schulze
Jim Nielsen📝 As has been observed, Apple’s own app icons (displayed reverse chronologically) look like someone getting really good at icon design.
And as Apple goes, so goes the entire macOS platform.
Rian@jimniels What boggles my mind is that it’s not about taste. Yes, the progression grows subjectively blander over time, but there is an abandoning of objective accessibility too. The older HIG for Mac OS icons called for differentiation through silhouette, not only color or subject matter.
Jiri Rybar@rianmurnen @jimniels A great example where stuff being too consistent actually worsens the experience.
Matt Godden@jimniels Why "whittling a carrot to a sharp point" means "Pages", I'll never understand. Guess I'm not a Cupertino Galaxy-Brain.
Colin@jimniels @wezm why does it feel like I've seen this conclusion / point discussed before? (oh I guess it is linked in the beginning of this post too rofl)
aha:
https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
max oakland@jimniels I still can't get over how bad the new Liquid Glass icons look. They're blurry! They look small. They're all the same shape, making it harder to tell them apart. Everything about the design language is a failure