this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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I think that matching logos with some kind of rainbow puke that's means nothing is one of the biggest sins of modern designers.
Not exactly nothing, all the Office icons are visual representations of the main thing you can do with the app. A sheet with lines on it for Word, a sheet of cells for Excel, a very impressive diagram for Powerpoint ...
Access is admittedly bit unclear but somehow people have always visualized databanks as cylindrical silos. Because databanks're used to ferment the data before being fed to the C suite (C is for cattle).
The older icons were more obvious though.
For example 2016 version.
Looks like OneDrive is next.
We can only hope
Hey now, I'm lazy and don't want to setup a SharePoint server just to sync my OneNote notebooks to mobile. It's the one thing I use OneDrive for.
I'm sorry I can't hear you through those nonsense words like "SharePoint", and "OneNote". I have the Microsoft ShareVault HyperSync on my WaffleGrid 360 Cloud Turbo, can you ping me there
Hahahahahaha, take the upvote for making me chuckle.
The stupid names devs give to software.
especially the macos version of those icons! the new icons are such a downgrade imo
Each version of office is a downgrade.
I guess we agree then.^^ You saying "the old icons were clearer" is essentially goalpost-moving over thread op saying "the new icon mean nothing".
I am not goalpost moving. Just pointing out that your argument of the icons being clear is valid for the older icons. The new ones are just coloured blobs.
I actually didn't realize until y'all's thread here that the new icons actually do contain a stripped down version of those older, clearer indications. I've looked at them many, many times and just saw meaningless vague color gradients.
They are bad 🤷♂️
I said "visual representations of". I never used the word "clear" (I did in my second comment, but only to paraphrase that you said "obvious"). And no, they're not "blobs" (i.e. amorphous spherical things), they are primary shapes. Those shapes do represent the primary function/interface of each app in some way.
I call them blobs mainly because they are not distinct enough.
Alright, how do you differentiate between W X P N and another P? They look exactly the same and you need look very carefully to understand that blue rectangle is sheet with lines on it and green rectangle is sheet with cells. That's exactly what I was writing about in previous message.
I am not going to argue these are the pinnacle of design. (I do happen to like the idea of shaded segments though, but that's just opinion.)
But they're much better than whatever Adobe came up with. Xdddd
Two things can be bad at once. 🙃
Sure. But I'd say there's "truly bad" and "acceptable" here. :)
The part that kills me is that a lot of these apps are for graphics and graphic design of one flavor or another. But it's like they did anything but hire someone to use their tools to fullest on this. Its mind-boggling.
I think a hallmark of bad logo design is needing to put the first letter of the thing on your logo because the logo itself is so unrecognizable that a user has no chance of figuring out what it is without the letter
It's obvious on my phone. It must be significantly more obvious on an actual computer screen.
AWS does this and it's so ugly. Does seem like they at least use the colors to group services conceptually, but still. Not like that jumps out at you, I had to go check one day.
Just these bright, garish icons that are unnecessarily loud, but without saying much, jacking up any presentation or diagram they're used in. I think they offer a couple simpler variants maybe, but woof.