Unrelated, I'm looking for a "Save File" icon that doesn't use a floppy disk. Does anybody here have any good ideas?
Downwards arrow towards a disk: https://imgur.com/a/dMrixoi
AWS icon quiz
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#132Aws feels like it was built by a bunch of siloed teams. There's a lot of design inconsistency I notice every time I'm in the console. For example, deleting entities is never consistent. Some just do it, some ask you to type in the name, some as you to type "delete me". Some entities have a name and a description field that are immutable on creation, even though they also have a unique id. I now have drop downs everyw…
AWS was built by a bunch of siloed teams. In the mid 2000's there was a mandate for each separate infrastructure team to open their infrastructure as a service, and they were given tight deadlines. This was meant to solve internal issues but was opened up to the world and AWS was born.
This is true. Each team owns their service end-to-end. It just happens that the console is usually an afterthought. Something to be left for the interns to work on.
The funny thing is, some of the AWS services are indeed quite primitive compared to their Amazon internal equivalent.
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#133This is so on point. I can't recognize more than 1 or 2 AWS things by icon. I've always wondered if I was the only one who found it kind of impossible to tell what's what in AWS.
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#134I'm not sure where one goes in the AWS web interface to view these icons. Poking around the EC2 menus for a while, I don't see an icon anywhere. I wouldn't say the icons are _good_, but I wonder if part of the reason the quiz is so hard is that Amazon doesn't really care if you know what the icons mean anyway. Seems like they're mostly used for branding and marketing, not anything users will see regularly.
If you click the pushpin icon in the web interface, you'll get a dropdown with the services and their icons. You can drag icons into your top bar as shortcuts.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
And why "Amazon" EC2 but "AWS" Lambda? It throws me off every time I look at an alphabetically sorted list of the services. Granted, Microsoft slaps "Azure" in front of some of their services, but Amazon seems to optimise for having "AWS" and "Amazon" mentioned together as many times as possible, as if we need to be reminded.
`Amazon` named services are core building blocks (e.g. ec2 is just servers). `AWS` are services built on top of the `Amazon` services (e.g. Lambda runs on their EC2 machines, Batch runs on EC2 machines). usually
i before e except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor
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#1363/20. It was all wild guess as I didn't recognize any of them.
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#137They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png
Adobe made a really gutsy move IMO. Some of their products had very memorable icons, which they chose to ditch in favor of the fully unified look. Ultimately I think it was a good one - Amazon’s current struggle to properly iconify their dozens of abstract services illustrates this perfectly.
I actually would be curious now to see how a company like Apple might approach the problem. Apple’s well-known icons are largely focused on popular apps, which have very distinct and concrete functions. I wonder if there really is a clear and unambiguous icon for something esoteric like a NoSQL database store - I suspect that there isn’t, largely because (unlike apps) it just isn’t something that is in the public eye.
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#138A 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.
Even if the title was "AWS icons are awesome" my results would have been the same
Well, I for one, think the icons ARE AWESOME.
Admittedly, I can't use them to identify any specific services, but they're cool looking.
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#139SPOILER: AWS inspector has a magnifying glass icon[1], but the correct answer in the quiz is incorrectly marked as "some boxes" [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/
If you go to AWS inspector in the AWS web console then you'll see why they chose "some boxes" as the right answer.
Wow ok, that’s just egregious. Using two different icons for the same product/service?
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#140Since there seems to be a lot of negative sentiment here about the icons, I'd like to offer a different perspective.
While using AWS services and leading huge migration projects, I've never thought to myself: "These icons are terrible and slowing down my progress". As in to say, sure the UX icons are a little wonky, but at the end of the day, do are they really impacting people from getting the value out of the services and using them quickly? Maybe Amazon is partaking in what is often sentiment around here: not optimizing things too soon.
Summary: while icons might be confusing and not great, I find zero impact in me architecting systems and communicating designs.