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The Unbearable Lightness of Blue Icons
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The Voice Memo app on the iPhone just got the light blue icon makeover.
Seriously Apple, knock it off.
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It really looks bad, too.
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Oh man. The old icon looked like somebody put a lot of time into making it, the new one looks like it took a couple minutes of Photoshop. Doesn't look awful, but the old one is so much more quality looking.
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This is what it looks like around the others
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Why is it a deeper blue than the stock and weather apps? When did that new YouTube icon happen too?
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the youtube icon is a home screen bookmark. I banished Apple's app to a random folder on the third screen because it became worthless after youtube updated their mobile site with more options.
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I like blue. A lot. I do not like overusing blue simply because it's there. The Voice Memo icon was fine; a truly "iconic" image that conveyed the whole concept of a microphone. The new icon is more abstract and brings with it no new information. Change just to change is not needed.
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Glenn -----
OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
I like blue. A lot. I do not like overusing blue simply because it's there. The Voice Memo icon was fine; a truly "iconic" image that conveyed the whole concept of a microphone. The new icon is more abstract and brings with it no new information. Change just to change is not needed.
Apple's usage of blue to me always seems odd. Many of their iOS UI elements are grey, yet they continue to push blue. Yet in OS X, they've pushed blue for forever, while retaining the Graphite theme, but when you switch to graphite, much remains blue. Annoying.
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Blue is where the heart is.
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I have the voice memo app in a folder and I thought it changed! What the hell, the old one was fine and now I keep seeing this tiny blue thing in the folder and it is distracting.
Has anyone made a list of all the new blue apple icons or just icons with a lot of blue in them?
just looking in my dock I see Finder, Mail, Safari, iChat, and iTunes.
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Ummm.
About 8 percent of males are colour-blind.
A blue/white or blue/yellow colour combination is the most visible for such people.
Hence, blue.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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That doesn't make sense. What about all the other Apple apps that aren't blue? Is Voice Memo more important than Contacts?
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Originally Posted by subego
That doesn't make sense.
Neither does not having aftermarket video cards for two year old Mac Pros.
It's Apple. It doesn't have to make sense.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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It usually does though.
Frex, the redesign is to match the Nano icons.
Not necessarily a good idea, but it makes sense.
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Is that an Aeron chair? 
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Maybe it was changed to increase visibility when in a folder.
Don't like it though. 
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Why is it a deeper blue than the stock and weather apps? When did that new YouTube icon happen too?
I don't think it's a deeper blue than the stock app - it just doesn't have white lines across it. It appears deeper than the weather icon though.
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
This is what it looks like around the others
Blueness aside, can someone tell me why the hell the ‘equatorial line’ in the Weather, Voice Memo, Stocks, App Store, and Mail apps are behind the centered logo itself, while in the Messages, Photos, and Phone apps, it’s in front of it?
This makes no sense to me.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
This makes no sense to me.
Why does it have to be one or the other for ALL icons ?
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Why does it have to be one or the other for ALL icons ?
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Design consistency?
Isn't your question sort of akin to asking why the GUI of all apps have to be the same? Same answer, I guess.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Design consistency?
Uhm, yeah, I wouldn't call creative and artistic variety an "inconsistency".
Originally Posted by Oisín
DIsn't your question sort of akin to asking why the GUI of all apps have to be the same? Same answer, I guess.
No, because this design feature has no bearing on the GUI's usability.
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The icon looks like a toilet in a way, and Ives used to design toilets; it's Jon's way of sneaking the toilet motif back into Apple design since they ditched white-and-stainless products
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Uhm, yeah, I wouldn't call creative and artistic variety an "inconsistency".
I would, when they’re so obviously meant to be of the same mould, yet are not.
No, because this design feature has no bearing on the GUI's usability.
And the shade of grey used, or whether or not there are pinstripes does?
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Blueness aside, can someone tell me why the hell the ‘equatorial line’ in the Weather, Voice Memo, Stocks, App Store, and Mail apps are behind the centered logo itself, while in the Messages, Photos, and Phone apps, it’s in front of it?
Some of them were sitting closer to the stage than others?
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That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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