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That's why I think Adobe has made the smart move. They simply use English as the icon, color as the impression. You can guess via the English if you are unfamiliar with the icon. And easy to spot via the color if you already know the icon. Let's say if I forget the characters in the Illustrator icon. But I can recognize the icon is Illustrator because of its orange color.
What do people actually think of this UI? These icons give a futuristic but also depressing look at the same time.
As a designer, I just want to say that if your instinct is to rag on these symbols for being incomprehensible, go ahead and try your hand at one or two. It may be humbling. Illustrating abstract concepts that are similar to other, related abstract concepts is extremely difficult. Remember that it's got to be legible in a footprint of a couple dozen pixels on a side. When you're done, make sure it isn't close enough t…
Just ask more money for it then :-)
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I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20
3/20 by purely guessing, out of the big 3 cloud providers it's the only one I have no experience with. Shockingly, one of those I got right was "select 4 out of 6".
I have not used AWS at that level, but are these actually real?
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It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names. API Gateway Should have been called: API Proxy It's like: 3Scale SNS Should have been called: Amazon Messenger It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio Kinesis Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput It's like: Kafka (It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)
It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.