I normally wouldn't say anything negative as UI design is tough - I work on it for web and specialist interfaces myself. I know it's always hard making a break to something new when you're ready to leave the old behind. However I think Avandelay makes some very good points.
One additional thing - I think the current desktop (and old iPhone) icons work because folders are grey, and the standard projects are white with coloured accents. It makes them feel like "documents" in the finder would. And single action lists stand out as something else again. The visual heirarchy "feels" right.
The new iPhone icons put everything as base grey, and leave less room within the grey box to differentiate.
The old offset "pause" and "dropped" overlays leave the main icon much more readable too.
Either way - consistency between the Mac app and iOS app seems most important. It was great to be able to see a (mostly) consistent icon set across devices. At least using the same colour palette and approach, adapting the details to match screen size and resolutions. Especially as the app doesn't seem to be an either/or choice - it's more like "collect the set"!
I hate to be the guy adding a "more options" request, but maybe in the future the comprehensive Mac app's styling options may extend to custom folder/project icon we can sync to the iPhone - much like perspective icons sync now. Then we'll can all just shut up and choose "classic", "new" or customise our own.
That was longer than I thought! Love the apps, and will be buying the iPad one regardless even if it does have a 3rd set of icons!
Is this sort of feedback worth emailing directly to Omni? Or is that best reserved for bug reports?
One additional thing - I think the current desktop (and old iPhone) icons work because folders are grey, and the standard projects are white with coloured accents. It makes them feel like "documents" in the finder would. And single action lists stand out as something else again. The visual heirarchy "feels" right.
The new iPhone icons put everything as base grey, and leave less room within the grey box to differentiate.
The old offset "pause" and "dropped" overlays leave the main icon much more readable too.
Either way - consistency between the Mac app and iOS app seems most important. It was great to be able to see a (mostly) consistent icon set across devices. At least using the same colour palette and approach, adapting the details to match screen size and resolutions. Especially as the app doesn't seem to be an either/or choice - it's more like "collect the set"!
I hate to be the guy adding a "more options" request, but maybe in the future the comprehensive Mac app's styling options may extend to custom folder/project icon we can sync to the iPhone - much like perspective icons sync now. Then we'll can all just shut up and choose "classic", "new" or customise our own.
That was longer than I thought! Love the apps, and will be buying the iPad one regardless even if it does have a 3rd set of icons!
Is this sort of feedback worth emailing directly to Omni? Or is that best reserved for bug reports?