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Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by stephengillie »

komali2 wrote: post #95
daveFNbuck wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't just one database app. They have Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Neptune, RDS, and Redshift.

"fast sql database," "fast nosql database," "redis cache nosql database," "graph database," "rds (is actually named right lol)," "big analytics SQL database."

As a longtime supporter of Remote Desktop Service in Windows, seeing AWS RDS took a while to get used to.

They could have named WorkSpace as Remote Desktop Service, which it is. Instead, many of my co-workers think AWS means only Amazon WorkSpace.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#102

Post by apeace »

I thought this was going to be about the infamous AWS Service Health Dashboard[1] icons.

Would be cool to do a similar quiz describing different failure modes of various services and having the user select which icon should be showing.

This is great though!

[1] https://status.aws.amazon.com

Re: AWS icon quiz

#103

Post by Twirrim »

dkoston wrote: post #53

Truth! Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be. If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is. If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. If you want something t…

Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such.

When things came close to launch, AWS Marketing decided to just roll with those code names. I've a suspicion that some teams deliberately used copyrighted names for their internal pre-launch project names, just to force the matter.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#105

Post by Jare »

arghwhat wrote: post #52
jonthepirate wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if the title was "AWS icons are awesome" my results would have been the same

But you might not have taken it, then. Also, presenting options such as "dried arterial blood red" and "slightly but not too radioactive green" might also make you less likely to put in effort to select the real one, rather than just picking randomly.

I am terrible with colors but I thought "slightly but not too radioactive green" was a perfect description.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#106

Post by jasonlotito »

StreamBright wrote: post #11

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

I have SSO with Okta. It's literally a browser plugin and I select which account to enter, and I'm in. You should definitely look into setting up something like that. It takes away all the pain of logging in.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#107

Post by hondadriver »

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.

The quiz is called AWS Icon Quiz. "AWS has terrible icons" is only the title of the Hacker News post.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#108

Post by ReidZB »

crazygringo wrote: post #90

I mean, is there anywhere in the console where you select/identify a service by its icon alone, without the name next to it? I don't remember any such place. If not... who cares? They're not branded consumer products that need recognition, just a bunch of services and it's not like I'd have any even remotely good ideas for most of these jargony things anyways... :P

You can configure the top bar in the AWS console to show icons only, but that would be madness. (I usually do the opposite and have it show no icons and only text.)

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by virgilp »

oblio wrote: post #65
virgilp wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I agree with you about that in a smaller bunch you do recognize the target icon relatively quickly, but they could have just used the color for the text itself :) Off-topic (and sort of translated): Salut Virgile, complet de acord cu tine, dar dacă făceau textul colorat în culoarea "service category", viața era mai simplă pentru toată lumea :) (lume mică, domne, uite de cine dai pe net :D)

Lots of vividly-colored text is hard to read and makes a pretty bad interface, too. Also, apparently the whole quiz is kinda' moot - here's how my console looks now: https://imgur.com/n9Ohtri (apparently they moved to "one icon per service category").

Ref offtopic: nu e cinstit, eu sunt usor de recunoscut dupa ID (plus am mailu' in profil). Nu stiu cine esti :)

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