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but being too lazy to even globally coordinate the icons is some deep rot.
by x0x0 9mo ago
but being too lazy to even globally coordinate the icons is some deep rot.
- pornel 9mo agoThey've got the SF Symbols font, and probably assumed that's enough. Everyone has the same set of icons available, technically. It seems that Apple has nobody left who has all three at the same time: taste, attention to detail, and authority to demand fixes. Having lots of people who have max two out of these three gives you designs of Microsoft and Glass Apple.
- wpm 9mo agoI despise SF Symbols. Cheap, lame, boring, flat little hieroglyphics do not make good icons. They're just cheap.
- stefanfisk 9mo agoIf rather have a boring but consistent and usable UI than something jazzy but inconsistent and broken. Every app should not be its own little universe as if it was a videogame.
- wpm 9mo ago"Usable" being the key word. 12 or 14 pixel square hieroglyphics are not good icons, end of story.
- stefanfisk 9mo agoSF Symbols is not a bitmap font.
- pornel 9mo agoBut as the article shows - you don't even get consistency, since different apps pick different SF symbols for the same thing. It's just uniformity that failed to bring real user interface consistency.