Tahoe's Terrible Icons

[jjrtiger]

There’s no whimsy anymore. UX is plain and monotone. hopefully this will be fixed

 

[fisherking]

Wrong lol

because you're in control of what's 'right or wrong'? unbelievable 🤪

 

[DarkMatterCamoGrind]

I really couldn’t care less about an app icon design. My workflow doesn’t depend on that.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

You're complaining about icons when they spent a decade on Swift instead of modernizing ObjC and keeping the performance improvements and dynamic capabilities and we still have a WIP language where most of the OS is still ObjC/C/C++ as it should be.

Hell, Fortran is now en vogue because we need it for HPC and AI. Too bad Apple has spent jack on incorporating Flang into the OS and providing some compelling HPC and AI developer tools with such language that all applied sciences need on Supercomputers and more.

 

[M4th]

Tahoe icons aren't really all that healthy either...

 

[_Spook_]

Paul Kafasis with a wonderful breakdown, icon by icon.

Some of my favorites:

The left-side tabs on the old Contacts icon were odd, but this new icon is even odder.
Is the cover of that book made of glass?

Hey, look, it’s Contacts, but far worse! This no longer looks like a book at all.
It’s just a gray “a” blob.

Look at the beautiful photorealistic glass on the loupe in the old Preview icon.
They sucked the soul out of it, and ironically, the new Liquid Glass version barely looks like a loupe at all.

It could just be me, but the previous versions of the icons look old and out of date. Adobe and Microsoft updated their icons for Tahoe and they're an improvement.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

I do care about the rounded corners, only because it's become too much.
It's almost comical how over rounded they are now.

Good point!

 

[TumbleDryer]

The main one that truly blows my mind is the drive icon. The perspective is objectively incorrect. We are clearly looking at the front of the object, but the back is... wider somehow? What is happening here?

I know it's "just" an icon, but it really makes you question what's going at Apple, a famously detail-oriented company, for them to release something this aggressively wrong.
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That's an optical illusion, it's actually the same width. That being said back in the day this would have been thought about and optically aligned so that the illusion was not apparent. There are so many design fundamentals broken at Apple today.