AWS icon quiz • Hacker News Board

Re: AWS icon quiz

#41

Post by 21 » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded

https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png

Re: AWS icon quiz

#42

Post by arghwhat » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

mschaef wrote: post #15

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.

They do have many services, but 95% of their icons, including the early ones, make no sense at all.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#43

Post by nhumrich » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

jordigh wrote: post #28

RossM wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

EC3S

Re: AWS icon quiz

#44

Post by mirceal » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:29 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #22

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 everyw…

Hah. Guess it depends on what siloed means. With a certain size you need to figure out ways of aligning/comunnicating things - whole AWS is probably thousands of people. You will get siloes.

On top of that: it’s not like all services were build at the same time. Some of them are the “bedrock” of Aws (S3, EC2), some of them are experiments that went viral.

On top of that: Aws is meant to give you building blocks. The magic happens at API/sdk level. The console is there to help you discover and play with the service in a few basic scenarios (and to maybe observer your resources). If you click your way through settings things up you’re going to probably have a bad time.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#45

Post by arghwhat » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:29 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #38

oblio wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sure but what does that mean.

Variable (i.e. elastic) capacity. That is, scalable, adaptive, "cloud", whatever you want to call it.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by binarymax » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #22

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 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.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by satsuma » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

7/20. i have never used aws. most of my points were from the matching section.

those are some garbage icons.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

Icons are the least of AWS's UX problems. The AWS console is godawful. It should be a case study in terrible design. I hate every second I spend on it.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#49

Post by brian_herman » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

:( Why so much hate on hacker news? Leave amazon alone!

Re: AWS icon quiz

#50

Post by binarymax » Mon, Aug 06, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

Very entertaining and bludgeons you over the head with the point of the survey. I got 6/20 and several correct answers were lucky guesses. I only really recognized EC2, Lambda, and VPC. That doesn't mean the icons actually convey what those are to me though - it's just memory since I use them often.