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The designs are really nice, but I feel they should be more differentiated. Otherwise you can't recognize a particular person by their avatar and you might as well use identical ones for all of them.
They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
> The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar. I agree that it's a good simple baseline, but going on a minor off-topic rant, I find it very annoying when this is implemented under the anglocentric assumption of names always being of the format Firstname (Middlename) S…
I've had the opposite issue in Korea. Several systems expected LastFirst (from my perspective).
"Beam" should be the default style instead of "marble".
Faces for avatars are almost always better than other options. We humans are really good at recognising faces, even cartoony or abstract ones, which helps users remember other users by their avatars. Some people are visually impaired or face-blind so this shouldn't be the sole means of identifying users, but for most of us, avatars are really important. There are people who I know from online fora that I haven't visi…
They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
> The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar. I agree that it's a good simple baseline, but going on a minor off-topic rant, I find it very annoying when this is implemented under the anglocentric assumption of names always being of the format Firstname (Middlename) S…
Not to hijack this (I have zero affiliation with this project), but RoboHash has been my absolute favorite version of this: https://robohash.org/
They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
Aside from identicons (which I think work rather well), I believe that a large Mondrian style image with a random circle on it that is then rotated, and scaled to the appropriate size (and cropped if constrained to a rectangle).
This allows for an image that attempts to avoids problem with color vision.
The issue that I had with the Boring Avatars is that too many of them were the same. Switching to ring or sunset had many identical ones. The Bauhaus version had a limited pallet so that the same three colors occurred frequently and only distinctions were in orientations of objects which weren't that distinctive themselves.
The amount of uniqueness per image in this is rather low. The solid color and letter you mentioned has more easy to identify uniqueness.
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So instead of just producing a set of notable people, they went with excluding men. I am not sure how we will ever achieve the supposed goals when they all seem to just be lip service and not about equality at all. How is this equal?
"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression." Stephanie Herrera
The designs are really nice, but I feel they should be more differentiated. Otherwise you can't recognize a particular person by their avatar and you might as well use identical ones for all of them.
People are good at remembering faces, but this is for people who don’t want to use their face. I don’t think the goal is to be memorable, just an easy way to be mostly unique.
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So instead of just producing a set of notable people, they went with excluding men. I am not sure how we will ever achieve the supposed goals when they all seem to just be lip service and not about equality at all. How is this equal?
This is just a list of notable women. It's not really "excluding men" as much as it is just a different category.
They look cool but aren't avatars mainly used to uniquely identify someone based on a picture? A lot of these look too similar. The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar.
> The really boring approach IMO is to choose a random solid color and put the user's initial(s) on top of it. This makes it pretty unique and much easier to associate someone back to their avatar. I agree that it's a good simple baseline, but going on a minor off-topic rant, I find it very annoying when this is implemented under the anglocentric assumption of names always being of the format Firstname (Middlename) S…
Just because the default example is based on one set of assumptions does not mean the project is inherently limited or biased.