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here is a thing i dislike : Android changing the standard for app icons to make them all be circlesPermalink Look on archive.org
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i keep tapping on the wrong green circlePermalink Look on archive.org
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it's such a pure example of trading off usability for prettinessLook on archive.org
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oh, it's worse than that, even? a bit of research reveals that these are "adaptive icons", created in an attempt to formalise the process where OEMs were trying to impose branding on top of Android apps (by putting icons in squircles etc).Permalink Look on archive.org
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yet again, my life is made worse as a byproduct of large corporations attempting to gain control over a platformPermalink Look on archive.org
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an app update happened and now everything is a squircle. except one plant identifying app, which somehow escaped unscathed.Permalink Look on archive.org
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here's the OS X situation : 4 distinct varieties of squircle next to each other (including the rare "hard squircle"). indistinct AND unaesthetic.Permalink Look on archive.org
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wait, I looked more carefully... we have a whole spectrum of squircle in six icons.Permalink Look on archive.org
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update from the world of Android icons: they're coming for the colours nextPermalink Look on archive.org
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ironic that after destroying the ability to recognise icons by silhouette, Google is now moving to a future where icons must be determined entirely by silhouettePermalink Look on archive.org