Fireside Chat
Enjoy part one of 37signals' round table discussion on icon design, starring a few folks you know.
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mcd on Apr 16, 2007
Quote of the chat:
Jon: so maybe we should do away with icons and logos!
Josh: (It pains me to say this) I think we should.
KatieK on Apr 17, 2007
Re the Adobe CS3 icons, my husband works at Adobe, and he says no one there likes them either.
LoopyMind on Apr 17, 2007
looks asif they come from a periodic chart.
josh
on Apr 17, 2007
They're totally Periodic Chart, which isn't horrible per se, but there seems to be a lot of people using it as a design scheme these days. I can see the reasoning behind them, but can't help but ask if they could have been better.
KatieK on Apr 17, 2007
We've got Macromedia to blame for this - look at the simplicity of their application icons.
LoopyMind on Apr 17, 2007
To my liking, it's to easy, i'm a sucker for insane detail, or atleast some detail... so a shiny (multi)color block and 2 white letters, is just a bit, well very much, to easy and doesn't involve REAL skill in making
LoopyMind on Apr 17, 2007
Atleast a bit of thought went into those... or creative spark... and I doubt that a mamoth company like Adobe would unwillingly settle for, in my eyes, crap... I seriously can't and won't believe that a very lengthy design process was used for the CS3 family... but it could be that it's done for clarity, coz the CS2 icons are somewhat hard to distinguish from eachother...