Comment by afavour

> Airbnb announced a new design and we’ve all just collectively accepted that it’s the future?

Don't overindex on one guy with a newsletter. My read on this article was this is someone trying to be the guy who called the next trend. He cites no evidence supporting the claim that it's the next trend, he's just trying to be the guy who puts a name to it so that he's an influencer if it does.

He also mentions how he's been designing icons in this style for decades, which should make a skeptical person wonder whether there might be some wishful thinking going on here.

What I can tell you for sure is that, as a professional designer, I have not received any memos mandating the use of this style of icons. I'll let you know when I do.

Aha, yes, it's a grand total of five icons (that I've managed to see so far) mixed in with a lot of flat icons. And they look ugly AF, it looks like a blast from the early 2000.

> Just loaded up the Airbnb site and… it’s new icons. The actual UI I’m interacting with hasn’t changed a jot, though.

Don't undersell it. It also manages to run like ass on a desktop with a modern gaming GPU, and takes 5 years to load on a gigabit connection.

And got my location wrong. And decided to machine-translate everything away from my native language.

Sshhht corporate hasn't understood yet that designers are in a collective loop because otherwise they would do nothing most of the time.

Changing icons, making some buttons bigger and smaller again, introducing and removing some gradients, that's what keeps us busy because at most companies the products already have a design system when we started.

Yeah new icons are ugly and looks like they are ripped from Sims 1. It's just designers trying to justify their existence in the company.

Gnome used to have very detailed 3d icons that looked great and were a bit outside the norm at the time when everyone were doing flat icons.

They moved away from it though because they were too expensive and hard for single developers to make, so third party icons stuck out like a sore thumb.

Well, personally it just looks like ancient NeXTstep/clones to me... I'm having flashbacks of that icon of a hand reaching out from a bullet hole whatever that was?

Anyway, I checked the Airbnb website and it really seems out-of-place on Android. Gives crappy iOS port vibes.

Definitely slower loading and jankier scrolling on my phone.

yeah , I too like the new Material UI , the suttle physics effors are awasome.

Because it’s nonsense from a “performative” wannabe design team.

I also get this weird sense that besides seemingly just having changed 4 icons, as far as I can tell, it really feels like they’re just dusting off three dimensional icons that existed back in around about the early aughts ?

I’m not convinced either.

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