“Icons that are iconic”

Apple might have undone the macOS Tahoe menu icons decision , but this wasn’t the only contentious iconography issue in their ecosystem. On his blog, Jim Nielsen writes how Apple filed away so much expression by forcing rigid icon bureaucracy in macOS. Nielsen focuses mostly on distinctiveness; previously, you could make the icon unique by its general shape or the shape of its contents, but one of these two levers has now been taken away: This over-emphasis on “systems” design seems endemic to modern softwa