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MicrosoftIntroducing new Fluent Iconography for Microsoft Edge
IrinaL This is great; I really like the new "tab" icon and the refresh icon (even though it's just been rotated a bit) but why is the folder icon in the bookmarks bar going to different from the recently updated folder icon in my Windows 10 Start Menu? They share the same visual style, which I'm very happy to see, but they aren't actually the same, which just seems odd.
Sorry, I'm pretty salty about Microsoft's design inconsistency lately. They're trying so hard to refresh things, but they're not bothering to refresh things in consistent ways, so it's not really an improvement.
Sadly, this hits home. It's super frustrating seeing Microsoft roll out half-baked (being generous) UI changes, that never are uniformly updated throughout the OS. They really need to hire a UI czar that forces every team to adhere to the same UI and enforce consistency. It's one thing that Apple is remarkable consistent at and it pays off huge dividends. The coherent, cohesive unity of macOS is something that is lacking. Fluent UI is a great UI, but it's just half-baked since it's not uniformly applied. Please, please, please fix this.
nlphite wrote:
Microsoft's design departments aren't really in the habit of talking to each other. Take the recent 19042 update of Windows 10, which removed the solid blocks of color behind app icons in the Start menu. A welcome update; those were an eyesore. They just forgot that app icons are used other places in the Windows 10 UI than the Start menu, and that those other places need to be updated as well. See, for example, the icons in the Default Apps section of Settings, which still have the ugly highlight color block behind them. |
Sorry, I'm pretty salty about Microsoft's design inconsistency lately. They're trying so hard to refresh things, but they're not bothering to refresh things in consistent ways, so it's not really an improvement.Hi,
i agree with you, I've made a feedback about this in feedback hub, upvote and share it if you want
nlphite Seems to me it's an approach where they take it one step at a time instead of waiting for everything to be complete. However, I feel like the transition from Win 7 to 8 never even completed IIRC, so the amount of time it takes seems really rough.
I'd be willing to bet that design committees are changing the goals while the artists are still working on the last set of goals, so they're always playing catchup. Just a theory.
