/2009/double-edged-consistency/ The Cocoia Blog is the website of Sebastiaan de With, a Dutch Icon and Interface designer. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.10 /2009/double-edged-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-206702 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:03:53 +0000 /?p=1224#comment-206702 Clearly there is a lot of litter when it comes to iOS app icons. At the same time there are several gorgeous icons that do not use any of the default styles used in Apple icons. Indeed the absence of in-depth official guidelines is to blame for this lack of consistency, but I think that with so many apps out there, designers would run out of glyphs and colors…

]]> /2009/double-edged-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-204688 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:43:57 +0000 /?p=1224#comment-204688 Sorry, bad link – http://bugreport.apple.com

]]> /2009/double-edged-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-204687 Sun, 31 May 2009 22:52:21 +0000 /?p=1224#comment-204687 Clock.app icon is terrible. Black icon on the black background…
New Message.app in 3.0 beta software is also bad, old icon was better.
You can write to Apple by http://www.bugreport.apple.com and suggest them to change this ugly icons.

]]> /2009/double-edged-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-204606 Tue, 26 May 2009 05:58:32 +0000 /?p=1224#comment-204606 […] great article by Sebastiaan de With on the astetics of iPhone […]

]]> /2009/double-edged-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-204598 Mon, 25 May 2009 15:53:02 +0000 /?p=1224#comment-204598 […] Mac and iPhone icon designer Sebastiaan de With of Cocoia takes app designers to task for not making their icons better match the quality and look of Apple’s built-in apps. Says de With: […]

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