The new app icons are horrific and poorly designed

[symphony]

It's not just for the app icons, but icons in general.

The icons in System Preferences are atrocious, especially all the apps right now.

Everything about the new UI I love, including the iOS-like app icons, but they should've just used iOS icons if iOS apps can now run on macOS with ARM processors in the future.

These icons look like they are from a jailbreak tweak. The new folder icons are displeasing, make them like iOS!!!

 

[iOrbit]

I like the basic philosophy of the aesthetic of the OS but hate the icon direction.

However, there was a few icons in there that I think would have been a good direction and balance between unifying the iOS / MacOS icons, but still in keeping of OS X.

I like the GarageBand icon. There was a few they made that were similar; it had the iOS scquare icon as a backdrop to a 3D sort of icon in front. I think that would have been the best way to go. Its possible they just havent finished updating icons and they will be refined as more OS 11 versions roll out?

 

[symphony]

What drugs are Apple smoking

 

[KALLT]

What drugs are Apple smoking

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This does not look nearly as bad as the Messages icon.

 

[symphony]

FaceTime, QUICKTIUME, Messages, App Store, Stocks LOOK LIKE TRASH.

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This does not look nearly as bad as the Messages icon.

What about keychain Access? It looks like an app icon from 2006

 

[KALLT]

What about keychain Access? It looks like an app icon from 2006

Have you seen how the app itself looks? Its UI has probably not been touched since at least 2006.

 

[tomtad]

What's with the random bit of text on the Mail app?

Jesus what have this done to Quicktime !!!!!

 

[Seanm87]

Looks like they’ve gone back to the bubble style icons

 

[vladi]

Everything goes full circle. It just happens they literally went back where they started.

 

[symphony]

Everything goes full circle. It just happens they literally went back where they started.

ah, so they went backwards.

 

[darkmatter343]

Looks like they’ve gone back to the bubble style icons

I was just about to say the same thing... dumping the flat icons and back to the 3D Icons... Maybe they'll bring back Scott Forstall now 😄

 

[symphony]

THIS BATTERY ICON IS A JOKE LOL WTF

 

[Sebosz]

I'm sorry, but these icons and this new dock are just ugly. Why are they turning macOS into iPadOS Pro?

 

[symphony]

Looks like they’ve gone back to the bubble style icons

Not every icon in the same window is 3D though, so it looks atrocious

 

[TrenttonY]

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THIS BATTERY ICON IS A JOKE LOL WTF

Yikes

 

[tranceking26]

Hopefully these are beta designs!

 

[Lunfai]

Come to see if there was a thread for this, looks like someone has found the inner shadow effect when Adobe converted Photoshop to run on Arm...

 

[wolfboy]

Oof Apple designers going HAM on that drop shadow and emboss. It looks like web 2.0 before they flattened everything.

I'm not digging it, their current icons are much better implemented. That Quicktime icon is pure trash lol

 

[Rogifan]

Horrific? Hyperbole much?

 

[TETENAL]

Some I like, some are all right, many are horrific.

Let's hope these are just placeholders.

 

[Feyl]

FaceTime, QUICKTIUME, Messages, App Store, Stocks LOOK LIKE TRASH.

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My TOP 10 hall of fame of ugliness: QuickTime, Messages, FaceTime, Safari, Mail, Preview, News, Mission Control, Reminders, Notes.

 

[Falhófnir]

Hey look its 2013 and iOS 7 again 😂 Remember the angst over the new safari icon?

 

[hagjohn]

Could just be placeholders.

 

[Diamond Dog]

Holy cow these are awful, lol. I have always defended even the most stark of changes (i.e. iOS 7), but some of these icons are just... bad. Especially the System Preferences icons.

 

[ErikGrim]

No no no on the ugly bevels on everything.