The title doesn't match the title of the article, which is "macOS Tahoe Beta 2 Fixes the Finder Icon"
It's the result of reading a post at Daring Fireball, where the title shown here is used but where it also links to the 512 Pixels post. Hard to be certain which article was the goal of the HN submission.
Link should be to that article. Not this. Flagged.
I don’t like that the images in the icons seem to be getting smaller, for the sole purpose of making it seem like a layer on a glass canvas. Edge to edge icons seem like they would naturally be easier for a user to see. This application on Finder feels very forced. But I am glad they at least switched the colors. That bothered me when I noticed it in the keynote.
Actual article title: "macOS Tahoe Beta 2 Fixes the Finder Icon"
I don't believe we are care so much about the icon, when the whole redesign of macOS is so bad. So much wasted space for rounded corners and gigantic buttons on toolbars.
The fact that they reversed the change so easily proves the point that there wasn’t a good reason for it in the first place.
I feel the same about Liquid Glass, so far I have not seen a good explanation on what actual problem does it solve, other than being fancy at the cost of degrading readability, wasting space and introducing a huge amount of work for developers.
Interestingly, neither this 512pixels or daringfireball post mentions the Finder icon in DARK mode, which preserves the reversed color (blue on the right). I think it looks good though, when in dark mode, and the fixed one in light mode looks good too.
Did anyone else feel like the controversy about the finder icon remind them of a certain Star Trek TOS episode?
I have Susan Kare's original finder iconography tattooed on my body. I don't have much opine on the new design language but I do think the new finder icons displayed in the post are an abomination.
Honestly, this feels like yet another example of Apple’s design team prioritizing aesthetics over usability. The Finder icon isn’t just decorative—it’s a visual anchor in the Dock. Subtle tweaks like color correction are fine, but when redesigns lose recognizability or affordance, it impacts real workflows. I get that design evolves, but sometimes it just feels like change for the sake of change.
It's such a shame they're stuck on this change for the sake of change, but at least they compromised and fixed the colors.
Remember when the HIG said icons should have distinct outlines? Goddamn Zoomers.
Yeah I’d be fine with a UI that doesn’t get redesigned every few years. I don’t see the benefit of constantly changing it up. This is probably a consequence of getting older, but I am getting older and I just don’t care for these pointless redesigns.
there are too many ux designers out there still or something. the constant redesigns that are always worse is tired