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Is it just me or do you guys miss these type of skeuomorphic icons? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know about all of you, I don't like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren't working properly because it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The thing I'm more nostalgic for was the time when everything had to be a glistening amorphous translucent blob, a bit like the Cingular Wireless logo or the MusicMatch Jukebox logo. And I'm in that era where you can just play MSN messenger sounds and you'll get an OH MY GOD out of me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Frutiger Aero, I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Sort of. What that page describes is in the same building as what I'm thinking about.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I've had the MSN message sound as my SMS Ringer for years now. The looks I get from people are fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

What icon pack? (Is this post supposed to be a link?)

Edit: Ah. Now there's an image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I still have some screenshots from my old Android G1 that is skeuomorphism galore. It’s nostalgic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Actually no, I hated the Vista era UI design. Linux themes were positively garish, add MacOS looked like a candy store. CDE greatly impressed me back then. It looked like it was made by adults for adults. Highly legible, and the pastel colors are being emulated by Solarized.

I'm sure that those UIs were a product of the times. The 90's and noughties were loud and colorful and exciting and everything looked like a comic. Now that we live in more depressing times, we can look to the science of perceptual psychology.

You see, we have an attention budget, we need to process what we see. Visually complex UIs need to be parsed, and that takes mental effort, and that robs us of mental energy to focus on our work. It's not a crippling effect, but it's there.

Look at street signs and corporate logos, they easily lodge in our mind. Effective advertising has a clear and simple visual language, and this is what UIs should strive for.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago

Absolutely not.

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