![]() Sounds unimportant but your eye picks up on stuff like that, maybe just enough that you’re more confused. What exactly are you looking for? They all have every color, and not even in the same order or direction - you see how some are red, yellow, green, blue and one is red, yellow, blue, green? Three (with Gmail) clockwise and two anti-clockwise, too. I don’t know about you, but I can’t tell them apart when I’m not looking directly at them. Remember, you’re never going to see them super big like in the image at the top. They all have all the colors, which just right off the bat makes it harder to tell them apart at a glance. First is that they don’t really have colors. There are two problems with the colors of the new icons. More importantly, they’re solid - except for a few that were better for their colors, like Maps, before its icon got assassinated. Likewise Keep (remember Keep?) and a handful of other lesser actors. ![]() ![]() The teal of Meet probably should have just stayed green, like its predecessor Hangouts, but it’s at least somewhat distinct. Gmail’s red color goes back a decade and more, and Calendar’s blue is pretty old as well. That’s part of why the icons of the most popular Google apps are so easily distinguished. Since I and a hundred million other people will have to stare at these ugly new icons all day until they retire them, maybe making a little noise will accelerate that timeline a bit. Better not to get attached.īut sometimes they do something so senseless that it is incumbent upon anyone who cares at all to throw the company’s justification in its face and tell them they blew it The last time I cared enough was with Google Reader. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your favorite Google products will float by. We’ve seen so many Google icon languages over the years that it’s hard to bring oneself to care about new ones. That can be important, especially with a company like Google, which abandons apps, services, design languages, and other things like ballast out of a sinking hot air balloon (a remarkably apt comparison, in fact). Companies always talk loud and long about their design language and choices, so as an antidote I thought I’d just explain why these new ones are bad and probably won’t last.įirst I should say that I understand Google’s intent here, to unify the visual language of the various apps in its suite. Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of G Suite as Google Workspace, replacing icons that are familiar, recognizable, and in Gmail’s case iconic if you will, with little rainbow blobs that everyone will now struggle to tell apart in their tabs. This powerful feature not only streamlines your workflow but guarantees the consistency of your UI / UX, which is probably the most critical aspect of this kind of work. When you use a linked component in your XD file, that comes from the source file, you will always be notified when one of these components is changed, you will preview the changes and at this point you can decide whether to accept or reject them. Linked components allow you to have only one source file (a style guide or a design system, like in this case) with all the elements in the UI of your project and to use them in other Adobe XD files. ![]() In circumstances like these linked components show all their true power. This, of course, also applies to your Google UI kit XD file. It is not uncommon today to have more people working on the same project and sharing their files. In this case, try to disconnect a component from its source. It is not possible to edit those parts of the UI that have been converted into a component in the Google file, unless you unlink a component from the source or edit the components from the source file. The process of pasting multiple artboards is convenient and powerful, but since the last release, Adobe XD uses the model of the linked components.
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