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Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by StreamBright » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:01 PM UTC

The worst part of the AWS UX is the login page. I regurarly have problems logging in with my accounts

Re: AWS icon quiz

#12

Post by Jare » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:05 PM UTC

7/20, and my correct/failed guesses seem uncorrelated with services I've used or ones I never touched. Anecdotal evidence about how arbitrary these icons are.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#13

Post by castlecrasher2 » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

Dwolb wrote: post #2

A note on methodology: typically in experimental surveys you don’t want to prime your subjects with words or phrasing that could lead to positive or negative bias. Additionally, negatively-biased phrasing on a public survey could also attract mostly those with negative views. This would skew your sample even further than solely priming. With that said, I have no idea what any of those icons are.

At first I agreed with you but taking the quiz I admit the title didn't really influence how I already felt about AWS icons. At least I remember AWS' service names like Firehose and Kinesis; GCP's are hard to remember when they don't use mnemonic devices for most of their products.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#14

Post by RossM » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #8

tantalor wrote: post #6

I may have heard of map reduce, but I have no idea what EMR is; turns out its map reduce (not sure what the E is for).

For most AWS stuff, "E" stands for "Elastic".

My favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#15

Post by mschaef » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

I don't think they have a 'bad icon' problem as much as a 'too many services' problem. I'm not necessarily saying that they need less functionality, just that they need to divide it up into fewer named/iconed chunks of functionality.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#16

Post by Arubis » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

Point well made. I got 2/20 and I’ve historically been paid to use this stuff.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#17

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

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Re: AWS icon quiz

#18

Post by cam3ham » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

hahaha, this is great

Re: AWS icon quiz

#19

Post by thestoicattack » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

Dwolb wrote: post #2

A note on methodology: typically in experimental surveys you don’t want to prime your subjects with words or phrasing that could lead to positive or negative bias. Additionally, negatively-biased phrasing on a public survey could also attract mostly those with negative views. This would skew your sample even further than solely priming. With that said, I have no idea what any of those icons are.

If the icons were good, the quiz wouldn't need to exist, right? So the mere fact that there is a quiz already biases the result.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#20

Post by virgilp » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #7

anton-107 wrote: post #3

I would guess text labels with services' names are supposed to be part of those icons

In that case, what point is there in having a non-descript icon? Just select a nice font and turn the text itself into a logo...

Because, while I might not remember/recognize all their obscure logos, I actually remember/differentiate between the few frequently-used ones.

Also, the logos are color-coded by "service category" if I'm not wrong