I’ve unironically seen both positive and negative reactions from people.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Gross. Why in the world would anyone want translucent icons?
Yes I’d like to strip away my ability to quickly sort mentally by color and I’d love it if there was a background image partially visible intermixed with the thing I’m looking for. Windows phone was peak UI. I don’t think transparency even needs to be a thing in an OS.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The icons in the article aren’t even the default behavior. Mine all still have color. At least on the home screen and app drawer. The control center icons are translucent but those barely had any style before. And crucially, wifi, bluetooth etc buttons still have color to indicate status.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Microsoft changing Outlook from gold to yet another blue blob. Google changing every single goddamn app to use the same red/yellow/green/blue pallet. And now this bullshit.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I mean, outlook has themes… but I generally hate their other recent UI changes.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There’s an argument that increasing friction can help people addicted to their tech not get pulled in. Lots of apps designed to do that popping up with hard time limits and locks the last few years. Apple and Google are definitely aware that their design choices put them in the crosshairs at schools and employers. These sort of things pass the buck back.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Transparency is fine if it’s used for stuff like the background of a window, since you’d want tod emphasize that anyways but I have to agree that using it for icons hurts usability so much.