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Google has recently screwed this up too with Material You where every single icon looks basically the same. App icons should be distinct. They are there for y

by flax 4y ago

Google has recently screwed this up too with Material You where every single icon looks basically the same. App icons should be distinct. They are there for you to recognize the app! Monochrome and uniform shape does not help with this.

Animats 4y ago
Most annoying is that the clickable elements are not identified visually. This does have an upside. Sort of. People are more accepting of dark patterns, as when you have to mouse over the ad before the "x" to make it go away appears. In a different place each time, for the worst cases.
- Fr0styMatt88 4y ago
  ‘DOWNLOAD NOW’ hahahahaha
AussieWog93 4y ago
Perhaps this is deliberate? The user "discovers" a new Google app by accidentally clicking on it when they really wanted Gmail or Maps?
- tartoran 4y ago
  Yes, im speculating its distruptive design meant to produce some form of anxiety in the user base, add some hard to pinpoint friction so users pay more of their mental cycles in the said software and cause them stockholm syndrome so they’re hooked. It could also be nothing of this but mere incompetence, producing change to resell the old at a future time. Regardless, it’s all to mess with your mind because as a user you never have the option to keep the old familiar and you always have to relearn stupid interfaces, ocasionally click the wrong button, be forced out of the happy path and sometimes get angry and but options to disable this/that. Im at the point that if something gets annoying I simply drop off. If ads for example become unavoidable Id stop consuming, %99 is utter waste of time anyway. End of rant
zbrozek 4y ago
I very frequently open the wrong Google app on my phone because they're too similar. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've gotten Photos when I wanted Maps or vice versa. I sometimes hit Slack when I'm aiming for one of the other two. My brain basically chooses icons by color content, so when everything is a primary color picker, I err frequently.
soundnote 4y ago
It's funny, the new Google icons are literally using disruptive camouflage. If you're drawing shapes, why the fuck do you intentionally break them? Shape-breaking is the exact thing animal and military camouflage do to make animals and humans less recognizable in the environment. And Google applies it to something they want to be spottable. @mcclure111 used a colorblind filter on them and they look better, as expected, because the shapes get broken less. Google basically failed Design 101. https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1313541935022342144 https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1313541935022342144

by flax 4y ago

Animats 4y ago

Most annoying is that the clickable elements are not identified visually. This does have an upside. Sort of. People are more accepting of dark patterns, as when you have to mouse over the ad before the "x" to make it go away appears. In a different place each time, for the worst cases.

Fr0styMatt88 4y ago
‘DOWNLOAD NOW’ hahahahaha

AussieWog93 4y ago

Perhaps this is deliberate? The user "discovers" a new Google app by accidentally clicking on it when they really wanted Gmail or Maps?

tartoran 4y ago
Yes, im speculating its distruptive design meant to produce some form of anxiety in the user base, add some hard to pinpoint friction so users pay more of their mental cycles in the said software and cause them stockholm syndrome so they’re hooked. It could also be nothing of this but mere incompetence, producing change to resell the old at a future time. Regardless, it’s all to mess with your mind because as a user you never have the option to keep the old familiar and you always have to relearn stupid interfaces, ocasionally click the wrong button, be forced out of the happy path and sometimes get angry and but options to disable this/that. Im at the point that if something gets annoying I simply drop off. If ads for example become unavoidable Id stop consuming, %99 is utter waste of time anyway. End of rant

zbrozek 4y ago

I very frequently open the wrong Google app on my phone because they're too similar. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've gotten Photos when I wanted Maps or vice versa. I sometimes hit Slack when I'm aiming for one of the other two. My brain basically chooses icons by color content, so when everything is a primary color picker, I err frequently.

soundnote 4y ago

It's funny, the new Google icons are literally using disruptive camouflage. If you're drawing shapes, why the fuck do you intentionally break them? Shape-breaking is the exact thing animal and military camouflage do to make animals and humans less recognizable in the environment. And Google applies it to something they want to be spottable. @mcclure111 used a colorblind filter on them and they look better, as expected, because the shapes get broken less. Google basically failed Design 101. https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1313541935022342144 https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1313541935022342144