Icons are now looking good!
I don't know if I have just gotten used to them but compared to how bad they were when we first saw them I actually think they are nice now. They seemed to have changed the shadow in the background from grey to black which seems to have made a difference imo.
BlackBerry 10 - Official News and Updates at BlackBerry.com - Global
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I wish they would just do away with the stupid shadow, move the text up just a bit and that would make room for another entire row. Seems simple enough and would make the screen appear larger as well.
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The purpose of the icon "coasters" is clearly to make the icons and their labels clearly visible against any background. They appear to work.
I have a wallpaper switcher on my Android phone, and certain icons get lost with certain wallpapers. This won't happen with the BB10 icons. It's a small detail, but it shows careful attention to the user experience.
Ideally, the OS would allow the user to select the degree of transparency of the coasters.
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Originally Posted by
just_luc They've really grown on me too.. at first I didn't care for them, but the more I look at them it's just a very clean design. I definitely didn't like them when they where big and rectangular, I was calling for them to be changed to the playbook style.. but the current iteration I think it's the best of both. The icon itself (the portion that will be submitted by the developer) is that individual design, but the opaque box acts to standardize all of the icons to the same size and makes for clean lines in the grid. If you look at the playbook or your current blackberry, there's always a few icons that just have appearance of being bigger then more overbearing then the others.
checkout this screenshot i just took on my playbook.. how out of place does the IMT VNC icon look compared to it's too neighbors?
http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/...G_00000029.png
Now take a look at the BB10 screenshot.. all the icons just line up perfectly even though some are square, some are round some like bbm are a individual shape, but they all work together because of the translucent box.
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http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/...rk-english.jpg That BB10 screenshot looks great actually. That wallpaper makes those boxes around the icons look slick. I think the only icon I'm still not satisfied with is the contacts icon (not in the screenshot above). It looked bad compared to the one in BB7 and the PB. I'm hoping it changes. But overall, the high-res screenshots look great.