“Inconsistency is a feature, not a bug – Terence Eden’s Blog”
The thing that makes Google’s later icons extraordinarily incompetent is that the old icons were consistent in terms of style, colours, shading, etc. The new icons are worse because they are less identifiable https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/inconsistency-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/
Google and Apple have been driving towards greater uniformity and less variation in their software design languages over the past few years, but their uniformity doesn’t mean they’re genuinely more consistent designs
For example, the older icons tended to have a consistent approach to using metaphor, whereas the newer icons are basically deconstructed abstract shapes that make no sense UNLESS you actually remember the older icons they’re referencing
These are just bad designs. Plain and simple
@baldur Skeuomorphs of skeuomorphs?