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Comment by mkmkmmmmm | Hacker News Reader

I like most of the new flat design but let's be fair those icons are objectively terrible.

Agreed. The icons are easiest part of a redesign to redo and implement tho, and designers on Dribbble have already posted versions that are significantly better. Apple's design team has a few months to fix things up and I'm confident that they will.

http://dribbble.com/shots/1109343-iOS-7-Redesign/attachments...

> The icons are easiest part of a redesign to redo and implement tho

Agreed, but that's why it's so puzzling that these icons were released in the first place. If they're the easiest to do and redo, they should be the easiest to get right.

Also, the iOS 7 video spoke of their new "harmonious" grid system used to design the icons. So I'm unconvinced that the powers-that-be at Apple believe they need fixing.

This is a new style for their designers, and I'm not surprised the visual design still needs some work. This is analogous to a developer learning a new framework - it takes time to learn it and get things right.

Is Apple pulling a standard consulting "leave some things wrong so customer can suggest easy fixes and feel happy with themselves" proposal approach?

This is a beta, after all. Steve Jobs' pedantry about everything being absolutely perfect for a demo may not be Cook's style.

The icons look fine to me, and really design of these icons doesn't matter all that much when they're going to next to all the icons for other downloaded apps. You're never going to get a homescreen full of icons that don't clash with eachother.

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