... the Messages conversation shortcut for my girlfriend has made her into an ugly demon. It's kinda crazy that Google also applies it to deep-link shortcuts as well. Feels very lazy.

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[–] 40 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I still don't understand why google decided to make all icons the same color. It's a usability nightmare and seems to ignore how we notice color before shapes. The colors are also pretty limited and most icons end up looking the same.

I understand wanting all icons to be consistent but I wish google should have tried changing the saturation to be more consistent or shifting all colors to follow one app.

It doesn't help how most stock launchers don't let you use icon packs and google wants to kill 3rd party launchers.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is the same Google who decided that their entire suite of apps should have slightly differently-shaped blue/green/red/yellow icons instead of anything recognizable

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yah. This doesn't work if you are scrolling through several dozen apps in the app drawer. They all look too much alike.

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