I honestly have no words for this awful app icon update.

[fab1an@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm

[jorijn@toot.community]

@gedeonm they probably paid some agency a few thousand for it too

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm unbelievable

[aburtch@shakedown.social]

@gedeonm It's like we're designing for idiots now. "I'm assuming you can't understand anything with nuance or subtlety, so I'm just going to make a blue square with the name of my company on it.”

[gedeonm@mastodon.social]

@aburtch It’s such a cowardly choice, so mind numbingly bad.

[fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe]

@gedeonm Wow, that’s really bad, and goes against all the rules. I was always told NEVER but text on an icon due to localization, which is probably not an issue in this case, but how the hell do old people read that?

Their old one was perfectly fine!

[icanzilb@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm are you sure that's the real one

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@gedeonm Honestly, the “we don’t give a shit” vibes here truly, deeply reflect the core PayPal brand promise.

[gedeonm@mastodon.social]

In case you forgot what PayPal’s app icon looked like prior or don’t use PayPal, here’s the before and after. This says so much about them as a company/band and society in general I’m sure I could write and entire essay on the subject.

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm I still have that one: I guess it won’t last for long.

[eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu]

@gedeonm GRAPHIC DESIGN IS MY PASSION!

[fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe]

@gedeonm “I’m sure I could write and entire essay on the subject.”

OH! Please do, Ged!

[e11bits@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm A source for reference? www.paypal.com still has the old logo (for me)

[jblake@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm Some PayPal exec's kid saw 'pee pee' so they started making design decisions.

[gedeonm@mastodon.social]

@jorijn Lolz! More likely they asked AI to design them a new app icon, one that communicates a strong, clear brand and one people associate with banking/money.

[gedeonm@mastodon.social]

@e11bits No source except my Home Screen. My iPhone auto updates and my iPad does not so now I have two different versions.

[himalaya@mastodon.social]

@gedeonm made with chatgpt

[pauls@social.lol]

@gedeonm that is abysmal

[danmorgan@vmst.io]

@gedeonm I was handling graphic design duties at my previous company between “communications specialists”. I’d noticed the that company logo had drifted from its original design and intent in both the typeface used inside it and the colors. It had been done at the whim of a previous comms manager without real permission by anyone in charge.

I researched the correct colors and found hex, Pantone, and CMYK specs and fixed the colors. Then I replaced the Arial typeface with Helvetica. It think originally had a generic sans serif from 1977 (Trade Gothic?) that was neither Helvetica nor Arial (obviously since it didn’t exist yet)