Metasyntactic...on my last post (last on page 1) I made some recommendations, not sure if you saw it or not.
Users will adapt to the new icon...change the pink to the old fashioned red you had on the other. Turn the yellow into the gold you used on the other. Tone down the blue and antique it and change the upper left white corner into another color. Since you can't animate it, I understand the use of the play arrow or maybe you could list 4...3...2...1...> across the center or something similar.
Again, those complaining here are maybe .05% of the 5% that do not like it so don't loose your cool for the few that are nagging here...they are petty. You can not please everyone and your app is doing well as you posted so obviously you are doing the right thing. You can not please everyone and never will...going back to the old one will probably be a mistake based on your complaint ratio. Its your income, your app, and your icon...do with it as you will and make your bucks!!!
I'll try some stuff out to see what might look better. I've shrunk the play icon a bit in the latest icon, and i'll run through some other colors to see if they work better.
That said, i'm not a designer or a photoshop guru. Lots of people here have asked me to change things. If you'd be willing to actually experiment around and present some results then that would be great.
Thanks!
Interesting how everyone in this topic prefered the old icon, without a single person prefering the new one.
Anyone else dislike the new one?
Why don't I like it?
- The film strip idea is cheesy, cliched, over-used, and very amateurish
- The colours are horrible, unlike the classy movie-like ones of the original
- The play button doesn't make much sense, unlike the film reel
- It doesn't say 'the movies', it might suggest 'Videos', but the original instantly said 'cinema listings'
What is amateurish about the film strip? And why is a film strip amateurish (since you're going to see a film), but a ticket is not?
If you don't like the colors, could you please recommend something you would like? Also, realize that the color was *almost* the number one complaint about the old icon. I'll try to count them up, but i think it was >1000 people who didn't like the red. What you call 'classy', they called 'distracting', 'an eyesore', 'garish', and many of them said it did not fit at all with their other apps. I'm not sure people appreciate how difficult it is to please people with something like color. And, if you take a look at my PSD, you'll see that several things were tried out. including (but not limited to) things like:
And all sorts of colors and shades for the film, the center, the font, etc. etc.
The last one was actually my favorite. I loved the use of negtive space to blend the icon into the background and to form the cell holes. However, it was absolutely detested by everyone else. Apparently not having rounded corners on icons is something that drives people into an absolute tizzy. It seems like it just goes against some people's sensibilities as to what is an icon or not.
Please feel free to adjust things yourself and pass them on to me
Would you recommend something other then the play button in the middle?
Clearly the original didn't say 'cinema listings' since i had 5000 posts from people who said they didn't like it or didn't understnd it. You're asking me to change things based on a dozen or so posts in a forum. But you're just *again* pointing out things you don't like without suggestions on how to improve them.
I've given you my data. I've let you know how my other customers feel. I've even provided you with direct access to my project and my resource files. If you could provide some constructive points that would be very helpful since they would be actionable on my part.
I agree with your entire comment (including the suggestions), but really wanted to re-emphasize the bit quoted below (except the part about me being petty
). I also want to echo how admirable it is for you to open up revising the icon to your users even if it remains as-is.
That said, what about a (free) font like
SF Movie Poster? D'oh... bein' petty again
Okay. Work's over for the day. Time to see what's playing at the movies.
p.s. I just e-mailed a modification and just wanted to say that having peeled the layers of your file it's worth mentioning to folks that you clearly tried other concepts before settling on this one. It was obviously not a careless change!
Hi there! I'm not sure i understand what you're trying to say. The icon on the phone doesn't have any text in it, so i'm not sure how it would help to change the font.
Thanks!
Count me as part of the ~5%. For me I think I just liked the more old-fashioned feel of old icon. Sedate colors, stately font and the cut corners. That said, if your downloads have gone up that much and the new logo is part or all of that reason I'll gladly bite my tongue
I love your app and am glad to see it succeed.
Thanks for offering up the *.psd. It'll be fun to play with, though I doubt I'll pass anything along. Keep up the great work (and maybe tone down the colors on the icon
).
Hi IronWaffle, could you explain what you mean by 'Stately font'? The icon on the phone had no font associated with it. I'm thinking you mean the icon provided for the appstore. However, that's not the case i want to optimize for. I need to think about hte phone experience (since that's the common interaction point) and all the complaints levied against the last one.
I also need to deal with the fact that my customers, when polled, liked this new icon by a factor of *16 to 1*.
But again, you are welcome to contribute toward the icon. If you improve it, i absolutely will include it in a further update. (and i'll be sure to send any love/hate mails i get for it your way
).
