Comments on: Iconfactory shows off work on Vista icons

By: Malakha

Malakha — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:58:19 +0000

Just vista icons

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:50:22 +0000

There is no rules that only Illustrators can do icons.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:04:51 +0000

Icons good

By: Are Windows Vista icons facing the wrong way? » JASMIN

Are Windows Vista icons facing the wrong way? » JASMIN — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:49:21 +0000

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By: Are Windows Vista icons facing the wrong way? - istartedsomething

Are Windows Vista icons facing the wrong way? - istartedsomething — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:36:22 +0000

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By: B Schwerve

B Schwerve — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:34:43 +0000

Icons are done by illustrators not designers.

By: tino

tino — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:05:35 +0000

Hmm, for me this icons aren’t a real design milestone. I really loved XP’s icons because of the strength and clarity.

The new icons aren’t real icons but beautiful pictures. They did not work as well as the old ones did: an isometric projection works a lot better than this perspectice projection (MS now has the same “perspective issues” as Apple has, just take a look at the “my games” folder icon). It just looks ugly when there are a lot of icons side by side.

The next big design issue is contrast and shape. The most important thing in designing icons. Windows Vista loses completely! In XP every icon has an easy to read silhouette with the exact same shadow. The new folder icon just work well at large scale. The small version (like in the start menu) looks like a yellow cloud (compare this with the small icons in Media Player or Photo Gallery – which are perfect). Same for a lot of icons in the new Explorer menus (exapt the “View” icons – they are the only small icons with a shadow in the whole system! …?).

And why is the My Computer icon (with a BSOD-blue display!) that small compared to the Recycle bin icon? (choose very large icons to have some fun) Oh yes: orange flowers, anyone?

Sorry, but for me this is the worst icon design for an important interface since ehm… DOS ;P Please MS, learn from Office 2007 and the designer in me can sleep well once again.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:34:23 +0000

@Andre Da Costa

I’ve just checked 512 x 512 resolution in Paint. Well… huge it is… but you should also consider that “in the not-so-distant” future we’ll see displays with 400dpi and above. And we’ve already got displays that have densities in excess of 600dpi for medical applications (such as people with partial blindness), abliet expensively. 512 might seem huge now, but eventually… well…

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:58:44 +0000

I’ve always wished that the “My Computer” (and in Vista, “Computer”) icon would automatically change to a laptop or tablet icon depending on the machine you’re using.

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:37:14 +0000

Possibly because they want to have a limit, come on 512 by 512, thats terribly huge. Desktop/Dock Icons I believe is the least of the resolution independent problems. The focus is to have the application UI support better scaling without looking awkwardly minuscule on future humongous resolutions.