Good point. But looking back, the beta versions of iOS7 were full of some gawdawful silliness (IMHO) that stayed put at release while everyone said “these are just drafts and likely to change.”
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The new app icons are horrific and poorly designed
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Good point. But looking back, the beta versions of iOS7 were full of some gawdawful silliness (IMHO) that stayed put at release while everyone said “these are just drafts and likely to change.”
I love the new icons and hope they are what we will see in the next release. Color, 3D looking on some, shading. I’ve been hating the current icons that came with Catalina.
I do like that home icon on the right. is that from 10.15. I'm still running 10.14 due to a 32bit app issue.
Though a problem with constraining developers to too much flat is too much similarity. To this day I mistake the orange & black Soundhound app with the black & orange OverCast app. Same with the iOS control center stopwatch and rotate-lock icons. Too clean, too plain, too similar...requires me the user to slow my roll and process before pressing. Gone is the feeling of “it just works” and “it’s like it’s thinking like I do.” And don‘t get me started on all the light blue & white flat app icons. Besides a functional degradation, they’re often downright boring. Instagram‘s tye dye washing machine icon replaced a beautiful, craftstmanlike and instantly-recognizable icon, washing away any chance of memorable heritage, and for what gain other than following the flat fad herd?
Have you seen how the app itself looks?Its UI has probably not been touched since at least 2006.
Keychain Access has been updated and looks different. They moved stuff from the side to a row above and changed it to match the rest of the UI. So it has been touched by Tim
Wow I thought everyone had forgotten at this point. I make mainly software tutorials on YouTube on a different channel now
It's been called Screenshot since Mojave...
I think we’re up to “Anger” right now.
OMG I couldn't stop laughing. I thought the Finder looked a little off. I'm not sure I would call it 'disturbed' per se, its more of the fake smile I put on when going into work lol.
The Audio MIDI icon hasn't changed. It's already in a square, all they needed to do was round-off the corners. 🙃
Does Apple seriously not have pages and pages of design language to ensure a cohesive look across its UX?
This really looks like amateur hour at the design studio.
Im really hoping someone threw together some trash icons to differentiate between ARM or Universal 2 apps and current apps until a later build.
This really looks like amateur hour at the design studio.
Im really hoping someone threw together some trash icons to differentiate between ARM or Universal 2 apps and current apps until a later build.
Let the countdown begin for the Creative Director responsible for this to be outed...
There's a fair bit of "Bargaining" too: "It's just in Beta, it could change"
I don't feel any redundancy issues with my icons or confusion. But I made many of them and went through some choices in styles to get the right icon. They're not perfect, but I like the set overall.
I’m tired of hearing this phrase every year. We’ve all been testing betas for almost a decade now and not much changes between beta to full release
It’s BS!!! It’s Big Sur!!!
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That’s because you have no taste. Duh. Tasteless, careless. You have very very very very poor taste in design and aesthetics. Extremely.
They should’ve made macOS icons exactly like iOS.
The problem is the developers who will get influenced by this design and implement it with the new design language and won’t change it later on if Apple decides to refine it.
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Made this icon myself just to show what I like, doesn't exist elsewhere
Yes and no, with the iOS 7 beta's quite a bit changed from the first beta to the GM. The ultra thin font was one I remember.
The icons were also very controversial however few now seem to be complaining about them!