Let's show a little design love for Google Workspace

[jeroen]

Let's all take a moment and honor those poor Support people that will have to guide users on which buttons to press.

[gemsling]

Google sees uniformity. I see confusion. When all icons look almost the same, it's harder to instantly recognise an app by appearance.

[TheOnlyJohnAbraham]

I'm sorry, Google, but changing all of your app's icons to use all of the same colors makes it harder to quickly identify them on my home screen. It's easier to find colors quickly than it is to find shapes.

[sfalconer]

This is a nightmare for end users. You had recognisable branding for gmail, docs, calendar and meet based purely on the single colour and shape... why destroy that by making messy, easily confusable icons that confuse the branding and recognisability of each service?

[stalker]

They all look the same, that's very confusing for users.

[chainsawd_]

the Google Drive logo looks "OK"

but the rest is a complete downgrade from the old logo

[infinitelyexplosive]

What is it with Google's constant need to make things worse?

[NORWAYORNOWAY]

Why Google, why!?! ...YOU KNOW THAT IT IS HARDER TO READ ALL CAPS -- SAME PRINCIPAL HERE: GOOGLE'S NEW ICONS ARE ALL VERY SIMILAR IN FOOTPRINT AND COLOUR, WITH LITTLE/MINIMAL VISUAL DIFFERENCE -- AND THIS IS, MOST OF ALL, BAD FOR UX!

[Yaxqb]

imagine being able to distinguish your icons

this meme was made by the adobe gang

[FrankBottazzo]

Wrong move. It is pretty obvious to anyone who cares for the user experience

[iamjohnnygamer]

Somehow this made the icons look more complicated than before.

[deenguyenfamily]

Me: Hey, which one is the gmail icon?

Google: It's the Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue icon.

Me: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[polherverolland]

Bad idea. Make it easier to identify, not harder. Also the colors look not so good together

[eyuelzero]

I feel old for sounding like my dad when he says "Why are the icons on my phone so similar!?"

[SalesforceSanctum]

It's not a welcoming step Google
You are making the things complicated for the sake of Re Branding your G-Suite ! !

When will this change came into effect ?

[aidenmonkey]

I'm getting sick of everything becoming far too simplistic rainbow icons. I haven't even gotten used to the new Google Maps icon or the new Google Photos icon.
Also, how am I supposed to tell Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/etc. apart? You've made them all the exact same.

[ohdear]

Haha, I thought I lost gmail this morning, but it was only the icon that had changed to be THE SAME AS ALL OF THE OTHER GSUITE ICONS. Well done, guys!!!!

[ElDonzo]

I think this is the worst restyle ever made, these icons looks all the same and most of all they all look very awful 🤢

[vishnupriyatham]

Thumbs down for this Logo. Instead of Improving the Apps.

Google Highly Concentrated on Logos. Well Done, Google!

[tristan_talks_tech]

I really miss all of the material design icons. They all had a unique look to them and were fun as they almost looked like a craft project. Now everything is that boring white (or dark) for everything except for the logos that all look the same. Why change something to this arguably worse version that was almost perfect before?