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I don't know about all of you, I don't like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren't working properly because it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective with me! ☺️

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Any time! I’m a graphic nerd with none of the book learning, but I do work at a screen printing shop, so I have some intuitive understanding of logo/icon design, but don’t have the theory to go with it.

In other words, I have wildly subjective opinions that I’ll randomly dig my heels in on. (Sometimes when I have no idea what I’m talking about ha!)

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Lol, I'm somewhat similar. I'm a big ui/ux nerd but don't have professional or academic experience other than some pro-bono work in high-school. But I love tinkering with my phone's homesceen and other similar little projects. I'm hoping to make a neocites page soon!

This is my previous phone's homescreen I posted a while back:

https://mastodon.online/@CrisColor/111440259435482295

I've gotten a new phone since then and am still getting it updated to fit properly on a new screen, so right now it looks a little jank 😅 but it's always interesting to hear how other people feel differently about aesthetics than yourself!

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Right on. I’ve moved onto a dirty iPhone since, but here’s a screenshot of my super old Android setup back from when Material was new. After Android took out all the fun stuff custom ROMs could do, I sort of fell out of love with Android.

I had a cool feature at one point where it started out looking like this and unlocking it would make the circle expand and the background would show in full.

Man, I miss early KLWP

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That looks awesome! I'm deeply nostalgic for that period of time, material design was the big thing when I was first getting into UI design and I was absolutely in love with it

Klwp and Kwgt are still a blast, that's what almost all of my stuff is made out of, but iOS has its pros as well :) from what I hear things are progressively getting a little more customizable, if still pretty locked down

At some point I'd like to get a little better at animations so I can make my setup feel a little more alive, but for the time being it's mostly just static elements