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How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?

by cosmotic 7mo ago

LeoPanthera 7mo ago
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
- OJFord 7mo ago
  https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)
  - thenthenthen 7mo ago
    The later examples are pretty wild, 3 different ‘minimize’ icons? Why? Different teams?
  - inatreecrown2 7mo ago
    This guy is doing free design work/critique for Apple
  - hirvi74 7mo ago
    A lot of those icon examples are being rather disingenuous. Some of the icon symbol changes amongst the various apps are justified because the actions being represented are different despite using the same English word. Take the "New" icon example. Adding a new reminder is not the same thing conceptually as creating a new note.
- Crestwave 7mo ago
  Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
  - neom 7mo ago
    A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - arm 7mo ago
      New Smart Folder with a cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Notes.app, while New Smart Folder with a folder+cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Finder.app.
      - neom 7mo ago
        Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!
    - garbagewoman 7mo ago
      Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it
  - smohare 7mo ago
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How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?

LeoPanthera 7mo ago

Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.

OJFord 7mo ago
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)
- thenthenthen 7mo ago
  The later examples are pretty wild, 3 different ‘minimize’ icons? Why? Different teams?
- inatreecrown2 7mo ago
  This guy is doing free design work/critique for Apple
- hirvi74 7mo ago
  A lot of those icon examples are being rather disingenuous. Some of the icon symbol changes amongst the various apps are justified because the actions being represented are different despite using the same English word. Take the "New" icon example. Adding a new reminder is not the same thing conceptually as creating a new note.
Crestwave 7mo ago
Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
- neom 7mo ago
  A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - arm 7mo ago
    New Smart Folder with a cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Notes.app, while New Smart Folder with a folder+cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Finder.app.
    - neom 7mo ago
      Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!
  - garbagewoman 7mo ago
    Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it
- smohare 7mo ago
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