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I have a severe distaste for icons. Look at HN, there's zero thinking involved outside of reading a language. You know exactly what something does, and it can e
by overcast 8y ago
I have a severe distaste for icons. Look at HN, there's zero thinking involved outside of reading a language. You know exactly what something does, and it can easily be multilingual as a result. I'm hoping the next big trend in design focuses on minimalist interfaces. Nothing but text, and some photos if needed. So tired of all the fluff, particularly on small phone screens.
- roywiggins 8y agoWeb Brutalism? https://medium.com/envato/brutalism-the-ugly-web-design-trend-taking-over-the-internet-2dbc8e822e37 https://medium.com/envato/brutalism-the-ugly-web-design-tren...
- __jal 8y agoI don't hate icons, per se. I just find them hard to use. For whatever reason, I have to think about icons a lot more than words, even after I'm very familiar with them. Watching others, most folks don't seem to have this problem - words and icons seem about equally fluid for them. And I'm fine if they don't move - I remember them by location. But I'm very slow to 'read' icons. The most common situation that highlights this is tab-application-switching. Those are never in the same order twice, and I have to stare at them until I can pick out the icon of the app I'm thinking of. I've looked for hacks that would replace the icons with words, but haven't seen one, at least on MacOS.
- alexbecker 8y agoI absolutely have the same problem. I think other people do to, but now I'm not sure if I've observed this or I'm just assuming other people have the same problems as me.
- gowld 8y agoText is very difficult for UI layouts, especially on small screens, and especially for lower-vision users, since (a) words take up more space than icons, (b) different languages have different length words.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIt's not really that difficult, if you're aiming for usefulness, and not creating a work of art.