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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.

Its one of those things u never think about as a person without disabilities, cuz i can tell the difference just fine, i guess they should have consulted someone with a vision impairment when considering stuff like this.

The homogenization of these icons has been a long source of consternation for me.

They're barely functional as icons; you can scroll right by them and miss them; which makes finding the apps in a list of apps a bit annoying sometimes. Removing each icon's unique color scheme and replacing it with the 'company 4 colors' was the stupidest fucking idea ever.

Even more infuriating is how they keep renaming the applications to unexpected things every so often; so they move around; and it's dreadfully annoying to remember if they prefixed the name of the app with a G or something else completely different, which renders strict alphabetical sorting a bit moot.

God I miss the original Material Design

I filed a very irritated Radar / Feedback (Apple's terms for bug reports) with Apple when the icons for apps all turned to rounded squares. I compared them to Google's icons and challenged them on making everything harder to distinguish.

I hate contemporary GUI design. Not all of it, but probably half.

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.

The absolute worst is the idiotic "let's make all app icons the same shape" thing.

oh noooo icons sharing a common design language and color scheme? the absolute horror.

if you can't tell the difference between these icons i have a great educational resource for you

I keep all my Google icons quarantined in one folder. Case in point:

I was yelling about how windows 11 swapped out text listingzs for copy, paste, etc from its contextual menus for stupid icons just the other day. Modern UIs are becoming so “streamlined” to the point of uselessness.

What would happen if people deserted Google products in droves?

Mail:

• Vivaldi mail
• Android clients: K-9 Mail
• Desktop client: Betterbird

Cloud:

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Maps:

• Organic Maps

Meet:

• Matrix

Calendar:

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Uh, are you geometrically dyslexic?

Yeah this is the worst! You know a few designers raised this exact problem during review, too, and were shut down

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.

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.

I use an icon pack on Android to revert them to their previous icon, the new ones are indeed terrible..

[It could be sooo easy to solve, but noooo...

What I see:

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Custom icon packs for the win!