The color change doesn't bother me nearly as much as the change in proportions. Insetting the face on the right and removing its curvature makes the smile look super weird and less "human" to me. I'm sure I'll get used to it, but it feels a little off.
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
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#33This is simply gatekeeping. I understand writing an article about it but filing a radar? The only thing the author wants to do here is a fandom flex. Ironically, his pictures prove that the icons have changed a lot! What’s the canonical face anyway? You can look at the prior icon and argue they broke canon there removing the black center stroke and clipping the overflowing line.
> What’s the canonical face anyway? Darker on the left, lighter on the right. Flush with the surrounding box. Evokes the feeling of two people: one looking straight at you, and one profile face. Even the profile face is broken in the new redesign.
I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front. My issue isn't the color swap as much as it being inset, it doesn't invoke the same feeling in me anymore.
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#34All this fuss about which side the blue is on has made me think about the Finder icon for the first time ever, and I've decided I hate it, it's stupid. It doesn't convey the use of the Finder app at all, and worst of all, it's smugly smiling at me like it knows its app is going to annoy the hell out of me today.
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#35The entire UI redesign of "liquid glass" looks horrible in its current state. Right now the readability factor on iOS is at an all time low. It feels like a change just for the sake of change. How is it better?
Maybe it's a subtle way to punish non-native apps that recreate UI elements, but do not use SwiftUI. The user gets used to the native way of UI elements and everything else will look odd after a while, forcing developers to ditch everything that isn't truly native.
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#37FTA: “The Finder logo has changed over the years, but the dark side has been on the left forever.” So, ‘forever’, they subtly associated left-handedness with the dark side? About time that they changed that ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl... ) :-)
Well, look at the etymology of the word "sinister". Sinister.
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#38About the swap, I can see how it happened with the new design code, make layers, put the transparent one below, and they didn't want to have the left side higher than the right one for reasons?
To me the bigger issue is by not having it go to the edge, it really breaks the one face/two face original design.
And it looks worse somehow in dark mode (but to be fair, everything is worse in dark mode right now in beta1, but Safari is the one that needs discussing) : https://ibb.co/CLhJ4XM
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#39The entire UI redesign of "liquid glass" looks horrible in its current state. Right now the readability factor on iOS is at an all time low. It feels like a change just for the sake of change. How is it better?
Maybe it's a subtle way to punish non-native apps that recreate UI elements, but do not use SwiftUI. The user gets used to the native way of UI elements and everything else will look odd after a while, forcing developers to ditch everything that isn't truly native.
One doesn't need to use SwiftUI for the look. Things like the tab bar, navigation bar are available in Swift too. (for those unfamiliar, Swift is different and older than SwiftUI).
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#40FTA: “The Finder logo has changed over the years, but the dark side has been on the left forever.” So, ‘forever’, they subtly associated left-handedness with the dark side? About time that they changed that ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl... ) :-)
Left handedness is sinister.