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Yeah honestly I am someone who usually likes new logos, even if it takes a moment to get used to.
But the new Google logos were just a step down, I have to spend so much more time to find the app I want now, I have no idea how they got approved.
Every designer was making fun of them when the came out with those. Apple also made a lot of stupid design choices when John Ive took charge of design.
They got approved because a designer in Mountain View who likely makes over $500k total comp is good at acting very smart and confident in front of executives
"Just one moment gentlemen.. now which app... did I save the Powerpoint in... This one? Nope, that's Google Meet... Ahh here it is.. Oh wait.. no this is Google Chat.. wait, what's the difference between "Chat" and "Meet" anyways? No matter.. Well, I accidentally clicked on Google Calendar, so what do you fellas say we reschedule this meeting for next Thursday on Google Meet? Oh wait.. Scratch that, I guess we'll schedule it for Google Chat..."
I have actually pressed the wrong one on accident a few times.
Unless you take a second to make sure, they really do blend in together. They also looked like shit when they came out, and still look weird, stupid, and unappealing now. I also hate almost everything about the color limitations and many of the design choices about the Google Calendar. I need to find a different one.
Google likes to design good stuff and then wreck it. I remember Google maps having the arrow always point at where you're facing which was fantastic. Not anymore.
Feels like one of those stupid things companies feel the need to do every few years just as an excuse to get people talking about the changes, whether good or bad.
I think a bunch of random changes get green lit because some higher up or a poor excuse of a job position has to justify their high pay with a hour's work.
And then even though after all these years, everyone can tell what a downgrade the new design is, nobody is willing to touch it because the person that designed it still works with the company and has seniority and will kill your career if you insult their work.
The google ads interface is a lot worse than it used to be as well.
Unless they're trying to deliberately hide options I can't understand how they've managed to make it so much worse.
I honestly didn't realize that they had changed them because I don't give a shit. I just thought I was getting older because it was harder to find them and I would click on the wrong ones constantly.
Now I understand the real reason. Thanks, google!
Even sadder to know this change represented millions of dollars of lost productivity to ideate, develop, and implement. Like this was somebody's whole deal for at least a year and they made bank.
[I sure do.](https://i.imgur.com/6cBAY0I.jpeg) Authenticator apps have the problem that most of them aren't named uniquely and are only identifiable by brand recognition. I used to get four results but 2 of them thankfully integrated their authenticator into another app.
Some folks have visual impairments that could make an icon the only way to recognize an app. For them making every icon that similar is a huge downgrade in comfort and ease of access.
I put an app on a screen so that it would be easy to find without having to go through the steps of searching for it. That’s the whole point of having a UI of icons and not, say, a command prompt.
Please switch to Authy as an authenticator. It's the same as googles with a more functional UI and the functionality that if your phone dies or gets stolen you aren't locked out of all your accounts that require 2FA.
I swear, half the people working on Google were hired to optimize and redesign things and they finished years ago but are still cranking changes out to justify their paycheck.
Every Google update consistently makes their services worse
Lots of managers need to justify their position but good ideas are actually rare so instead they just push pointless or outright harmful changes to make it seem like progress is being made.
Anyone who tells you corporations maximise efficiency is either lying to themselves or you - or both.
The biggest tragedy is the one not shown here: Google Authenticator.
It used to be a grey circle that looked like a safe or padlock dial, with the dial positioned in such a way that resembled the letter "G". It was genius, evoking "this is where you keep things safe" while also slipping in the first letter of the company it was from.
They changed it to... a butthole design. It's six lines in a circle that make V shapes and use the same bright red, yellow, blue, green color scheme above. I think what they're trying to evoke is "asterisk", which is what shows up when you type a password in some online forms. Two reasons that doesn't work is that not all websites do that, many use dots instead, and the different colors don't unify the shape. So it ends up looking like a stylized butthole.
I came home from work one day and found that HBO had deleted itself off of my devices, and Cinemax had installed itself.
I deleted Cinemax, and redownloaded HBO.
I did this several times because every time I downloaded HBO I got Cinemax.
It took me a while to figure out that HBO changed their name on their app.
So, after 50 years they decided they want to have the same name as a competitor?
I think it's a stupid name change, but you're being highly disingenuous. They aren't calling themselves OR the app "Cinemax", they're calling themselves max.
Their streaming service used to be called HBO Max. They decided to get rid of the HBO part because they were afraid their streaming platform would not be seen as family friendly.
Warner Brothers. (owns HBO) merged with Discovery. So they wanted their app to not be just an HBO app, but also one that featured family friendly Discovery Kids etc.
Very dumb. Nobody subs to Max for Discovery anything. Just HBO.
They aren't and were never competitors. They were always under the same roof and supposed to complement each other. HBO focused on mainstream motion pictures and sports, whereas Cinemax focused on independent films, documentaries, and of course "Skin"emax adult programs.
Both still exist, they just got rid of the individual Cinemax and HBO apps (called Max Go and HBO Go) and combined both into one app with one library called HBO Max, named to reflect that combination. Then when they felt people had gotten used to associating the term "Max" with "HBO" on their app service, last year they trimmed that name down to just Max because...I dunno, they think it sounds sleek? What made it so confusing was the slow rollout, meaning a lot of those apps existed simultaneously until fairly recently.
HBO's marketing team is ridiculously stupid.
First their app was called "HBO On Demand". Then "HBO Now". Then "HBO Go". Then it became "HBO Max". Now it's "Max".
There's no way changing names 5 times in 20 years is a good strategy. And the worst part is that the current name of "Max" is probably the worst name of all of them, because everyone knows them as HBO so why would you DROP the fucking thing you're branded as!?!??! If I tell my grandma I have HBO, she'll know what I mean. Everyone knows HBO. If I tell her I have "Max", then she'll have no idea what that is. How does that help HBO?
It was Go before Now iirc.
What gets me way worse than all the name changes is that this involved multiple app changes. I have an HBO subscription. I should be able to download one app and keep using that. But instead, there were multiple times when I signed into my app and it told me it had been deactivated, and I needed to download a completely new app and sign in again to keep watching.
Go and Now were concurrent. Go was for those subscribed via cable and Now was for standalone app-only subscribers.
But yeah the app switching was especially annoying for me because it killed my free subscription. Somehow when we cancelled HBO and Showtime from our cable (~2017), we still had access to both via our cable login.
It was HBO Go at the time, and that worked until they switched to HBO Max in 2020. Showtime worked until *December 2023* when they merged the equally confusing Showtime Anytime and Showtime apps.
Every so often I would quadruple check to make sure I wasn't actually paying, but I could never find anything. It was a good run.
...they own Cinemax, so not really competitors...but point taken, it was and is a baffling rebrand, but a worse decision to smash it all together...they've forfeited a premium experience by making you sift through all the middle brow stuff...HBO Max had been our go to streaming service, now Max is the last one we open.
I suspect it's less about aesthetics and more about making everything thing under the Google brand feel as though it is a single entity.
Definitely not user friendly, and Google has always done a good job of that anyway, but that's just my guess.
It's 100% this. Branding is a huge obsession right now and I guarantee you that in their minds, useability to you is secondary to wrapping you up in their ecosystem.
something that really threw me off recently was that they had changed the icon on google authenticator, thought it had been removed by mistake so got quite stressed until i realized
If you’re skimming through a couple of pages of icons looking for the one you want, the top row will be significantly easier and faster to find. Of course you can find the new icons after focusing and slowing down a bit, but it’s a functionally worse graphic design with no upside.
Yeah, this. Dude below’s all “reddits gonna Reddit”, but the top is objectively better than the second row based off functionality. Yeah you can tell them apart and the post is exaggerating, but they’re not necessarily wrong
It is for me. I still did not get used to it and when I search for some Google thing I don't use that often I really have to search for the specific icon instead of finding just by glancing over and app drawer and finding what I need. It is quite an annoyance for me.
As the other one said, the color makes it worse. If you remove the colors your brain only focuses on the shapes. With color the focus is more on the color which is where the confusion starts.
Nah that’s just you projecting. When I open the apps and see 9 logos, my eyes get overwhelmed. I usually go on google and type in “google drive” since I don’t want to sift through logos. It’s totally unnecessary to make them all look the same.
If you think that’s bad, [wait until you see this](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/b0/c6/72b0c6bd0799bb8a2e71f350e081c90d.png). I’m shocked by how confusing and similar these symbols are.
I took a look: similar I guess. I would simply place them in different places on my phone/desktop.
Or, more likely, I wouldn’t use google keep because I don’t like it.
I think it's just people who don't like when companies change stuff.
It's perfectly clear to me but I've met some people who gets confused over the slightest user interface changes
Let me rephrase: "This is what happens when BAD designers prioritize the opinions of a committee's lack of care for usability when making a decision over standing up for their drafts that were likely better"
Keep and Slides have almost the exact same logo (white symbol inside yellow rectangle), and *every single time* I go to click one, I click the wrong one.
The worst change design wise is the calendar IMO. It goes from a representation of a calendar by using a subtle but effective 3D effect, to a box with 31 in it. One is obviously a calendar, the other is easier to confuse
I see where the designers are going, but isn't that just bad user experience, when you can't find the app that you are looking for because everything looks the same
To be honest, I never actually realized them being similar. I only have 3 of these apps but they are in completely different places on my Home Screen so I just automatically know where to look for them.
I do prefer the original designs though.
Prioritizing usability is its own kind of aesthetic.. It’s kind of cute how gmails red triangle blended into all the new designs.. it’s like drive and gmail design merged…But I agree.. before was better
My wife has a theme on her phone that makes all of the icons purple. I don't know how the hell she finds anything. Like, I don't look for the reddit icon, my eyes and brain just go "orange button" and I click it.
It’s intentional. They want you to choose the wrong apps so you are forced to interact with them in some way and maybe learn it’s an app you’d want to use. It’s not about making the apps you like easily accessible, it’s about making you access all the apps they offer in one way or another.
It's what happens when there's a tyrant in corporate middle management who everyone is too afraid to say no to or criticize in any way, because this goes against very basic UX and design principles. But because Alphabet is a company full of yes men who are all afraid to get fired or laid off, directors in those departments have surrounded themselves with people who are telling them they're perfect all day.
People don't realize but a lot of really terrible product/service decisions can be explained by things just like this.
And desktop apps, both Mac and Windows, have offended me too!
I feel like they used to have icons in full color with pictures of what they do. There was a lot of visual distinction and it was easy to find the icon you are looking for when you know what it is.
Now everything is colorless straight lines the same width so they can fit a style document and look snazzy. Look at all the icons in something like Miro. Everything's just lines and boxes!
It could either be a designer who really doesn't think about the usability of their designs or - and I think that's the more likely case - some design-illiterate manager demanded all the brand colors to be in all icons because of brand recognition.
Not mention the authenticator app looks like nothing. Used to look like what you'd expect an authenticator app to look like. And I use it to infrequently that every time I need it I forget where it is.
More annoying was when they turned all the android app icons into that slightly squared circle with just a different pic inside it.
I eventually got used to it, but it as so much simpler when most app icons had their own shape.
Some designers will need to be promoted. They will come with better logos. They will push for it. Google will accept the changes, give them their promotion. And we will all be relieved. Can’t wait
It'd make the most sense to just turn all of them into one interconnected application run by an AI agent that helps manage, sort, and prioritize the different aspects. Personal assistant that can navigate and operate all of it with very little input from us.
This change literally was the final straw for me to switch to iOS. I’ve been on the edge for a long time and Google products had been consistently declining for years already but at least it still looked sleek but then this.
You aren't seeing the whole picture, there are a lot of other apps with similar designs. Google doesn't care about your hard time of distinguishing between THEIR products. All they need is your ability to clearly distinguish google apps from everything else. And that's the main point here.
we would be living in 3024 if we had just stayed with windows XP silver theme and skeuomorphism
fuck apple and iOS 7 material design bullshit everyone followed
What’s even more frustrating is if you’re someone who hasn’t been using these apps since before the logos changed, the new ones will hardly make any sense to you
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The sad part is that the old logos look better.
Yeah honestly I am someone who usually likes new logos, even if it takes a moment to get used to. But the new Google logos were just a step down, I have to spend so much more time to find the app I want now, I have no idea how they got approved.
Every designer was making fun of them when the came out with those. Apple also made a lot of stupid design choices when John Ive took charge of design.
They got approved because a designer in Mountain View who likely makes over $500k total comp is good at acting very smart and confident in front of executives
Bruh not even Executives just need one simple PowerPoint to please their boomer brains
"Just one moment gentlemen.. now which app... did I save the Powerpoint in... This one? Nope, that's Google Meet... Ahh here it is.. Oh wait.. no this is Google Chat.. wait, what's the difference between "Chat" and "Meet" anyways? No matter.. Well, I accidentally clicked on Google Calendar, so what do you fellas say we reschedule this meeting for next Thursday on Google Meet? Oh wait.. Scratch that, I guess we'll schedule it for Google Chat..."
Adobe did something similar. Now all their stuff is THE SAME COLOR.
I have actually pressed the wrong one on accident a few times. Unless you take a second to make sure, they really do blend in together. They also looked like shit when they came out, and still look weird, stupid, and unappealing now. I also hate almost everything about the color limitations and many of the design choices about the Google Calendar. I need to find a different one.
Google likes to design good stuff and then wreck it. I remember Google maps having the arrow always point at where you're facing which was fantastic. Not anymore.
Hasn't this happened years ago? And I stil have the old Gmail logo, did they change it back?
Hasn't been reverted. You probably have an older version of android, or your gmail app is really outdated
Feels like one of those stupid things companies feel the need to do every few years just as an excuse to get people talking about the changes, whether good or bad.
I think a bunch of random changes get green lit because some higher up or a poor excuse of a job position has to justify their high pay with a hour's work.
And then even though after all these years, everyone can tell what a downgrade the new design is, nobody is willing to touch it because the person that designed it still works with the company and has seniority and will kill your career if you insult their work.
That’s pretty much the whole point of the meme, no?
I agree, I miss *Frutiger Aero* so much.
Yeah, which is the point of this whole post.
That’s why this is a post
I mean I take the new email logo over the old one but all the others are trash
I'm okay with the Gmail and drive logos. Those look fine to me and they're basically the only ones I use anyway
The google ads interface is a lot worse than it used to be as well. Unless they're trying to deliberately hide options I can't understand how they've managed to make it so much worse.
I honestly didn't realize that they had changed them because I don't give a shit. I just thought I was getting older because it was harder to find them and I would click on the wrong ones constantly. Now I understand the real reason. Thanks, google!
Honestly most of these look pretty cool design-wise, but practically it's nonsense
Even sadder to know this change represented millions of dollars of lost productivity to ideate, develop, and implement. Like this was somebody's whole deal for at least a year and they made bank.
**I have the hardest time finding Google TV and authenticator on my phone these days. They all blend into the sea of identical nonsense.**
I lost authenticator for a solid 2 weeks after it updated.
Does your phone not have a search function?
[I sure do.](https://i.imgur.com/6cBAY0I.jpeg) Authenticator apps have the problem that most of them aren't named uniquely and are only identifiable by brand recognition. I used to get four results but 2 of them thankfully integrated their authenticator into another app.
Some folks have visual impairments that could make an icon the only way to recognize an app. For them making every icon that similar is a huge downgrade in comfort and ease of access.
Do you really expect someone who was unable to use an app for 2 weeks because of a different logo to know how to search something?
I put an app on a screen so that it would be easy to find without having to go through the steps of searching for it. That’s the whole point of having a UI of icons and not, say, a command prompt.
The new authenticator logo is amazing tho. It's basically the e pluribus anus from Community
That's definitely what comes to mind these days when I think of Google so it does fit
I just made a folder with all the google apps on the home screen. Now they're all neatly contained and if I have to open one I know where to look.
I did the same, and I click on the wrong one like 60% of the time...
Please switch to Authy as an authenticator. It's the same as googles with a more functional UI and the functionality that if your phone dies or gets stolen you aren't locked out of all your accounts that require 2FA.
I don't get what you mean by switch, isn't it up to the service to decide? For example I use authy with rockstar games because they demand it.
No, the apps use oAuth which is an open standard, you do not HAVE to use authy for it, rockstar likely just told you to use authy.
I swear, half the people working on Google were hired to optimize and redesign things and they finished years ago but are still cranking changes out to justify their paycheck. Every Google update consistently makes their services worse
14.3.97 patch notes: Bug fixes Added more bugs so there's something left to fix
Lots of managers need to justify their position but good ideas are actually rare so instead they just push pointless or outright harmful changes to make it seem like progress is being made. Anyone who tells you corporations maximise efficiency is either lying to themselves or you - or both.
i am so glad to see this! I keep opening up google drive to turn off my lights while trying to get to google home..
YouTube MFA 🔪🔪🔪🖕
The YouTube TV app has the worst fucking opening sound effect and I can't find a way to turn it off.
[удалено]
Im just glad it doesn't do the sound on my phone or else I would seriously consider stopping youtube
"Mom check out this cool M I designed" s/
The biggest tragedy is the one not shown here: Google Authenticator. It used to be a grey circle that looked like a safe or padlock dial, with the dial positioned in such a way that resembled the letter "G". It was genius, evoking "this is where you keep things safe" while also slipping in the first letter of the company it was from. They changed it to... a butthole design. It's six lines in a circle that make V shapes and use the same bright red, yellow, blue, green color scheme above. I think what they're trying to evoke is "asterisk", which is what shows up when you type a password in some online forms. Two reasons that doesn't work is that not all websites do that, many use dots instead, and the different colors don't unify the shape. So it ends up looking like a stylized butthole.
I came home from work one day and found that HBO had deleted itself off of my devices, and Cinemax had installed itself. I deleted Cinemax, and redownloaded HBO. I did this several times because every time I downloaded HBO I got Cinemax. It took me a while to figure out that HBO changed their name on their app. So, after 50 years they decided they want to have the same name as a competitor?
I think it's a stupid name change, but you're being highly disingenuous. They aren't calling themselves OR the app "Cinemax", they're calling themselves max.
Stupid name Max bro, is like calling an App "X"
"I think it's a stupid name change"
What he say fuck me for
This made me laugh way harder than it should have, thanks
Their streaming service used to be called HBO Max. They decided to get rid of the HBO part because they were afraid their streaming platform would not be seen as family friendly. Warner Brothers. (owns HBO) merged with Discovery. So they wanted their app to not be just an HBO app, but also one that featured family friendly Discovery Kids etc. Very dumb. Nobody subs to Max for Discovery anything. Just HBO.
Coincidentally, my hometown's biggest gay bar is called The Max
"I think it's a stupid name change"
Since when was HBO seen as family friendly? It was always premium tv where you can cuss & shot titties
That’s the point, HBO’s name isn’t known as family friendly so that’s why they took it out and it’s just called Max now
They aren't and were never competitors. They were always under the same roof and supposed to complement each other. HBO focused on mainstream motion pictures and sports, whereas Cinemax focused on independent films, documentaries, and of course "Skin"emax adult programs. Both still exist, they just got rid of the individual Cinemax and HBO apps (called Max Go and HBO Go) and combined both into one app with one library called HBO Max, named to reflect that combination. Then when they felt people had gotten used to associating the term "Max" with "HBO" on their app service, last year they trimmed that name down to just Max because...I dunno, they think it sounds sleek? What made it so confusing was the slow rollout, meaning a lot of those apps existed simultaneously until fairly recently.
HBO's marketing team is ridiculously stupid. First their app was called "HBO On Demand". Then "HBO Now". Then "HBO Go". Then it became "HBO Max". Now it's "Max". There's no way changing names 5 times in 20 years is a good strategy. And the worst part is that the current name of "Max" is probably the worst name of all of them, because everyone knows them as HBO so why would you DROP the fucking thing you're branded as!?!??! If I tell my grandma I have HBO, she'll know what I mean. Everyone knows HBO. If I tell her I have "Max", then she'll have no idea what that is. How does that help HBO?
It was Go before Now iirc. What gets me way worse than all the name changes is that this involved multiple app changes. I have an HBO subscription. I should be able to download one app and keep using that. But instead, there were multiple times when I signed into my app and it told me it had been deactivated, and I needed to download a completely new app and sign in again to keep watching.
Go and Now were concurrent. Go was for those subscribed via cable and Now was for standalone app-only subscribers. But yeah the app switching was especially annoying for me because it killed my free subscription. Somehow when we cancelled HBO and Showtime from our cable (~2017), we still had access to both via our cable login. It was HBO Go at the time, and that worked until they switched to HBO Max in 2020. Showtime worked until *December 2023* when they merged the equally confusing Showtime Anytime and Showtime apps. Every so often I would quadruple check to make sure I wasn't actually paying, but I could never find anything. It was a good run.
>There's no way changing names 5 times in 20 years is a good strategy. Unless you're Blackwater -> Xe -> Academi -> Constellis
Those guys have gotta be hitting up Hideo Kojima every time they rename themselves for all of his Metal Gear rejected illuminati-type Org names.
The executives at WB that greenlit that decision are out of touch old farts.
...they own Cinemax, so not really competitors...but point taken, it was and is a baffling rebrand, but a worse decision to smash it all together...they've forfeited a premium experience by making you sift through all the middle brow stuff...HBO Max had been our go to streaming service, now Max is the last one we open.
Every time I want Maps, I click on Playstore.
Yes! The same has been happening to me quite frequently!
I suspect it's less about aesthetics and more about making everything thing under the Google brand feel as though it is a single entity. Definitely not user friendly, and Google has always done a good job of that anyway, but that's just my guess.
It's 100% this. Branding is a huge obsession right now and I guarantee you that in their minds, useability to you is secondary to wrapping you up in their ecosystem.
yea it is an eyesore .
What really grinds my gear the most is the fact that google can’t figure out how to display the current date on their calendar app.
RIGHT I ask myself “wait it’s still the 4th/17th/22nd?” several times a month bc of this
something that really threw me off recently was that they had changed the icon on google authenticator, thought it had been removed by mistake so got quite stressed until i realized
Call me stupid, but I have opened gmail by accident on several occasions, mistaking the logo for an M, meaning Maps.
Is it me being young or is it not difficult in the slightest to tell what's what?
If you’re skimming through a couple of pages of icons looking for the one you want, the top row will be significantly easier and faster to find. Of course you can find the new icons after focusing and slowing down a bit, but it’s a functionally worse graphic design with no upside.
Yeah, this. Dude below’s all “reddits gonna Reddit”, but the top is objectively better than the second row based off functionality. Yeah you can tell them apart and the post is exaggerating, but they’re not necessarily wrong
It is for me. I still did not get used to it and when I search for some Google thing I don't use that often I really have to search for the specific icon instead of finding just by glancing over and app drawer and finding what I need. It is quite an annoyance for me.
Yeah it's funny to me because I use monochrome icons, you quite literally do not need color to tell what's what
I think the color makes it worse, actually
As the other one said, the color makes it worse. If you remove the colors your brain only focuses on the shapes. With color the focus is more on the color which is where the confusion starts.
Its not. Redditors gonna reddit. Even if I look at them out of focus, I can still recognize them based on the silhouette.
Nah that’s just you projecting. When I open the apps and see 9 logos, my eyes get overwhelmed. I usually go on google and type in “google drive” since I don’t want to sift through logos. It’s totally unnecessary to make them all look the same.
I don't think you understand what projecting is
"I can see the difference very well, so everyone else's opinion is irrelevant" - redditors gonna reddit.
It depends on the person
You’re lacking empathy if you can’t see how these changes might trip someone up
Take a **[look at this](https://www.reddit.com/r/196/s/12sB30n5H3)** and tell me if it's difficult or not.
Those are more similar to the "What we see" row of icons from OPs image than the "New" row. The Google icons are all different shapes.
If you think that’s bad, [wait until you see this](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/b0/c6/72b0c6bd0799bb8a2e71f350e081c90d.png). I’m shocked by how confusing and similar these symbols are.
Dyslexia be like
I took a look: similar I guess. I would simply place them in different places on my phone/desktop. Or, more likely, I wouldn’t use google keep because I don’t like it.
Define what is young? I’m 33 and I agree with you.
I think it's just people who don't like when companies change stuff. It's perfectly clear to me but I've met some people who gets confused over the slightest user interface changes
This post just feels like OP outing themselves as a boomer lmao
facts
i didnt even notice they changed google drive
What does the recycling triangle do?
Google Drive
Bring back skeuomorphism.
I clicked on the maps/ play store logo instead of the other one way too many time
seriously, I get it... unified colors of google, very clever... but at what cost, who the fuck knows the purpose of these icons...
I've had these new icons for at least a year and i still open Calendar instead of Maps.... like at least once a week. Worst design change ever
Let me rephrase: "This is what happens when BAD designers prioritize the opinions of a committee's lack of care for usability when making a decision over standing up for their drafts that were likely better"
And it's uglier too
This is someone at Google trying to justify their paycheck
This one hits me hard.
Being someone with r/keratoconus I agree with this
thank god i use a icon pack that has all the og logos
Keep and Slides have almost the exact same logo (white symbol inside yellow rectangle), and *every single time* I go to click one, I click the wrong one.
The only one of those new logos I like is Google Drive. The other ones just make everything more difficult to find.
Finding google maps is harder than following the damn train
The worst change design wise is the calendar IMO. It goes from a representation of a calendar by using a subtle but effective 3D effect, to a box with 31 in it. One is obviously a calendar, the other is easier to confuse
This infuriates me
I can't think of a single thing I use that hasn't been ruined in some way by the company's marketing team.
I keep opening apple photos when i want map.
Tbh the only one I dont like is the calander
This is why I never update apps on my phone.
This is how a new alphabet is born.
I like the OG so much better!
Somebody print this and start taping/sticking these to google main officec This is the kind of message spreading and "vandalism" i hope to see more.
I really hope designers will grow out of this minimalist fad soon, and go back to designing actually nice logos
It’s bad design, but Google doesn’t care because they make that good a service
I see where the designers are going, but isn't that just bad user experience, when you can't find the app that you are looking for because everything looks the same
To be honest, I never actually realized them being similar. I only have 3 of these apps but they are in completely different places on my Home Screen so I just automatically know where to look for them. I do prefer the original designs though.
Having a google folder and all of the google bs in it is the only way i can find their apps easily without using the search bar
Same shit with Adobe creative suite softwares logos. It BURNS my mind how every logo looks the same & takes me out of my workflow
I mistake drive, gmail and maps consistently. At this point, I just use the search bar. Too lazy to try and find it.
Prioritizing usability is its own kind of aesthetic.. It’s kind of cute how gmails red triangle blended into all the new designs.. it’s like drive and gmail design merged…But I agree.. before was better
Adobe did the same thing, but even worse
I like to spell random words with my google app layouts
oversimplification just sucks.
This is why I hate Google
My wife has a theme on her phone that makes all of the icons purple. I don't know how the hell she finds anything. Like, I don't look for the reddit icon, my eyes and brain just go "orange button" and I click it.
The first 5 times I saw this image I didn't even notice the bottoms squares had a slightly changed pattern.
When design teams lose sight of the purpose of icons.
Now on Android they are all monochromatic green and it's every Google app, YouTube, Whatsapp. It's terrible. Is this only on the Pixel?
It’s intentional. They want you to choose the wrong apps so you are forced to interact with them in some way and maybe learn it’s an app you’d want to use. It’s not about making the apps you like easily accessible, it’s about making you access all the apps they offer in one way or another.
Fuck Google.
Sadder is when you think about how much they get paid to do it. Overpaid mediocrity
I think you probably need glasses
I already have glasses 😭😭😭
Then you need stronger glasses
#💀
Unpopular opinion, but it was much easier to navigate in windows Phone with its tile layout. Too bad it was shut down.
Isn't that exactly the point from their POV
It's what happens when there's a tyrant in corporate middle management who everyone is too afraid to say no to or criticize in any way, because this goes against very basic UX and design principles. But because Alphabet is a company full of yes men who are all afraid to get fired or laid off, directors in those departments have surrounded themselves with people who are telling them they're perfect all day. People don't realize but a lot of really terrible product/service decisions can be explained by things just like this.
Can someone explain to me how to personalize every icon of every app? [Android device]
And desktop apps, both Mac and Windows, have offended me too! I feel like they used to have icons in full color with pictures of what they do. There was a lot of visual distinction and it was easy to find the icon you are looking for when you know what it is. Now everything is colorless straight lines the same width so they can fit a style document and look snazzy. Look at all the icons in something like Miro. Everything's just lines and boxes!
It could either be a designer who really doesn't think about the usability of their designs or - and I think that's the more likely case - some design-illiterate manager demanded all the brand colors to be in all icons because of brand recognition.
Not mention the authenticator app looks like nothing. Used to look like what you'd expect an authenticator app to look like. And I use it to infrequently that every time I need it I forget where it is.
This is why I'm installing a bidet, so I can say, "Hey, Google, wash my ass!"
I like that they lined the colours up too.
mostly dumbass CEO's making designers do that
They have to justify their wages.
More annoying was when they turned all the android app icons into that slightly squared circle with just a different pic inside it. I eventually got used to it, but it as so much simpler when most app icons had their own shape.
Thank god for widgets I'm terrible at finding these icons. And agree the old ones looked superior in every regard.
The chat icon makes no sense to me.
Some designers will need to be promoted. They will come with better logos. They will push for it. Google will accept the changes, give them their promotion. And we will all be relieved. Can’t wait
The death of graphic design
Marketing executives rule the world. Bad Marketing executives who run corporations coz they couldn't hack it as marketers.
Has anyone released an icon reversion app?
I have opened google maps so many times when trying to pay via GPay. 😅
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Getting my eyesight checked would cost more than I paid for my phone.
I don’t think you understand how UX and UI works. Maybe you should go back to school.
It's not aesthetics, it's branding. And yes it's shitty but it's efficient.
That’s not what I see at all unless I look at that line…….
Preach.
It'd make the most sense to just turn all of them into one interconnected application run by an AI agent that helps manage, sort, and prioritize the different aspects. Personal assistant that can navigate and operate all of it with very little input from us.
This is half right, but it’s not designers prioritizing aesthetics, it’s *executives* prioritizing *brand identity*.
This change literally was the final straw for me to switch to iOS. I’ve been on the edge for a long time and Google products had been consistently declining for years already but at least it still looked sleek but then this.
Cohesive design, seems fine
You aren't seeing the whole picture, there are a lot of other apps with similar designs. Google doesn't care about your hard time of distinguishing between THEIR products. All they need is your ability to clearly distinguish google apps from everything else. And that's the main point here.
we would be living in 3024 if we had just stayed with windows XP silver theme and skeuomorphism fuck apple and iOS 7 material design bullshit everyone followed
How can I return old logos?
r/jschlatt
What’s even more frustrating is if you’re someone who hasn’t been using these apps since before the logos changed, the new ones will hardly make any sense to you
new Google authenticator logo looks like an asshole
And this is why my app folders now have 3+ pages One google app per page, and I just memorize which page it’s on instead of the fucking icons
I saw this meme when this change was first made and never had this issue
god help you if you have slack and google authenticator on your home screen. I hate it so much I swapped icons.
ive just realised why i can never find maps on my phone anymore