Comment by Andrew_nenakhov
6 hours ago
Humans are very good at distinguishing shapes and colors. Visually distinct icons of various shapes help build muscle memory and quickly find the needed option.
One of the worst trends in icons is this insatiable desire to put different icons into uniform shapes.
For example, this trend resulted in tragic replacement of beautiful varied and distinct Android icons that were introduced in Android 5 to the uglicity we have now.
On iOS, beautiful SFSymbol icons that floated beautifully on flat surfaces since iOS 7.0 were encased in absolutely similar circular 'liquid Glass' blobs. Sad.
I've never thought SF Symbols were beautiful. They are boring, ugly little bugs, hieroglyph crap that fade to blobs unless you're looking at them at 64x64 and above. Bereft of color, care, or soul, just crappy little vector squiggles. I hate them, and I hate that everyone copied them.
A company 1/100th the size used to design beautiful icons that clearly represented what they meant, and that company was Apple. Now I get SVG slop. SF Symbols can bite me.
And also to constantly redesign the icons. I am effectively icon blind at this point due to the constant churn
I once thought it was a nice refresh every 5+ years. Now it feels excessive changing every single year.