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Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by alexvoda »

oblio wrote: post #5
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.

I think the whole quiz is a joke, to prove a point.

I am not a AWS user but I am familiar with what several of the AWS services do. I looked over the quiz and I could not answer even a single question.

I also think the quiz is to prove a point. Those icons are not helpful at all. The opposite of the MS Office icons which are so recognizable all other office suites copied the color scheme.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by Waterluvian »

Aws 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 everywhere that list "Rds creation wizard VPC" or something long those lines.

Its not clear what fields are drop downs so I have to type stuff into them to see if they'll give me a list of options.

The UI uses the same styles but inconsistent language. In ECS there's a list of entities. To delete an entity you have to go into it and delete all its children. Then the entity disappears.

I know there's engineering reasons for all this, but I feel like they can do better than settle for engineer grade UI.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by SemiNormal »

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...

It is almost like the auto generated gravatar icons.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by sailfast »

Arubis wrote: post #16

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

Yup. 4/20 made me realize how much I use the new type-ahead feature on the dashboard. Not sure it's even worth using icons with so many services being offered.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by jerf »

In general, I would not expect questions around expect people to remember details about a logo just from a name to work very well. People in general can't do that even with extremely famous logos: https://www.signs.com/branded-in-memory/ Nor can they generally even draw a bike, with physical necessity available to guide them: http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

However, it is absolutely a reasonable request of a logo that you be able to go from logo to designated product, and while quizzing about details like "which horizontal pole is higher" is definitely a bit of an ask, you should still see a lot of people getting that right from just "feeling" which seems right.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by jordigh »

RossM wrote: post #14
oblio wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

I always thought it should have become E3CS. I recall there's some old lisp manual that followed this kind of naming scheme.
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