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While the Hummingbird icon was well balanced and indicated motion, there were a few reasons that made us change: - We didn't feel it was Mac OS X-y enough; it
by tumultco 15y ago
While the Hummingbird icon was well balanced and indicated motion, there were a few reasons that made us change:
- We didn't feel it was Mac OS X-y enough; it didn't seem to fit in with other icons in my Dock.
- The concept itself was too abstract. Given our product name is also abstract, we wanted something a little more concrete. The new concept is an animator's lightbox, which we felt is closer to its purpose. Admittedly not a lot of people have seen this in their lives...
- We wanted some way to convey the HTML5 given its importance in our app.
- Everyone is doing birds nowadays!
- pavlov 15y agoThanks for the reply. For what it's worth, my feeling is that if the old icon didn't fit in, the new one blends in too much -- in my Applications folder, it looks like some generic shareware utility at first glance. What if you dropped the wooden lightbox entirely, and just had the sheet of paper with metallic rulers and the two markers? That might make the "it's for design" notion more obvious.