Not Google related, but whoever decide that the best color scheme for an Office suite should be light grey text on a white background deserves to be flogged.
The absolute worst is the idiotic “let’s make all app icons the same shape” thing.
There’s always a yoyo effect with design. I fully expect Google to swing back to gothic palette and highly detailed icon within the next decade.
Custom icon packs for the win!
What I see:
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[It could be sooo easy to solve, but noooo…
Without the distracting colors, now I can see this says MAPOD
I use an icon pack on Android to revert them to their previous icon, the new ones are indeed terrible…
i see the new icons wanna intergrate googles colors ngl
Triumph of visual design over interactive design. These days, most “designers” only care about graphics visually. The much deeper science of how people use and understand things is beyond them. Worse, they think the problem is that everybody else does not “get” visual design.
Style over substance.
Worse, they think the problem is that everybody else does not “get” visual design.
This means they didn’t even make good design. Another example is KDE vs GNOME.
KDE: “We just did system we wanted.”
GNOME: “No, you don’t get it, this is design!”
Case in point: Every single thing Microsoft is doing in Windows these days.
I wouldn’t even call this “aesthetics”. Rather “conceptual homogeneity” or something like that. It’s what happens when you strive for a uniform look over a useful or visually pleasing one.
Even uniformity can be aesthetically pleasing, but these icons are decidedly not.
In some countries uniform look at least provided good for society. In this case it provides only profits for to 1%.
Good for society:
Hey show some respect! A whole team of people each racked up tens of thousands of dollars of student loanb debt and spent months tweaking their designs, just for upper management to wreck it all on a whim in order to get you those new icons.
For mostly all of my app-launching things I always prefer searching for text than searching for an icon. In pixel launcher, I always use the app drawer search, but an even better solution is in something like Niagara launcher.
Yeah this is the worst! You know a few designers raised this exact problem during review, too, and were shut down
I feel like it’s easier to use the monochrome mode of the phone than these icons
In case you want to feel old, this change happened almost 10 years ago now fellow grandpas.
Bro what
I confused it with their other branding changes from 2015, who cares I don’t use google anymore lol
Damn, my 30s flew by if 2020 was 10 years ago
Ok so for me it’s the 2012 maps logo, the 2013 gmail and the 2015 calendar logo.
