Voting has ended! Congrats to @fer0n@lemm.ee with option B. Thanks everyone for participating! :)
First off, thanks to everyone that participated in our icon contest last week!
I’m excited to show the final three options for you to vote on below!
Overview
Option A
Option B
- 📸 On homescreen
- 📸 Icon
- Credit: @fer0n@lemm.ee
Option C
🗳️ Vote!
⚠️ BEFORE VOTING I encourage you to tap through the links above to see what it’s like on your homescreen!
Results of the poll will not be available until it has ended, so no need to make a rushed decision.
VOTE HERE: https://strawpoll.com/BDyNEbKeqZR
Polling ends in ~24 hours! If there is a tie, I will cast the final vote.
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I’m not voting because none of them look good, sorry :(
None of the above. They look straight outta 2010.
It pains me to agree, since the community put so much effort into these, and that’s truly appreciated, but I don’t feel like any of them live up to Voyager’s aesthetic. They’re all kinda amateurish. Hopefully the devs do another one of these contests in time.
That’s the word I was trying to avoid, “amateurish” (not to sound harsh). There are a lot of cool ideas out there, but definitely not the work of a professional designer (disc.: I work with graphic designers and app developers, I’m a web developer myself). Maybe the Lemmy community needs to grow a little, so we can get more options.
I also think the contest guidelines are partly to blame. The whole, “avoid the corporate vector look, look at these super detailed illustrations” thing is horrendous advice. It basically translates to, “avoid doing what the most talented app icon designers in the world do.”
Yes, the icon should be fun and stand out. Yes, the Facebook “f” is boring as fuck. But some of the greatest app icons are extremely simple, and there are reasons for that. Fine details don’t display well in the actual contexts that icons are used in; they make the design seem muddy and confused. People resonate with clear design that knows its purpose.
I prefer the current icon to any of these new ones.
Looks like I can never delete the current one from my homescreen for any reason 😅
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I hate to say it but the options are a bit disappointing. I wish the top community upvoted submission was considered:
Current icon
I vote for C.
Kinda looks like that apple vr
I’m going with C. A is pretty cute too though.
Is there an option to keep the current icon?
Yeah I love the current icon!!
I third this. Current icon looks way better than provided options.
It’s a bit too fast to start doing a Reddit and degrade the app icon.
Can we just have the options to choose what icon we want??
Unfortunately it is not possible for a Progressive Webapp.
Awwww alright well thanks for the reply!! Was hoping C would win it looks so clean.
Add me to the “unfortunately I don’t think any of them are great and can’t/won’t single out one to vote for, but truly appreciate all the effort that’s been put in” list
This is what I thought too. The original icon is better then the given 3 options. Sorry about all the effort from the contestants.
A, but I like the current icon better.
Looks like you’re going to have to do a fork on the m.lemmy.world branch that keeps the current icon :)
Another vote for the current icon. These are all a lot worse.
What is the current icon?
The one you currently see in the browser here: https://vger.app/settings/install (and then on your Home Screen if you install the app)
Oh. Yeah, no, these new icons are better.
Ribbit
The voting should’ve let us rank the icons instead of just choosing one (or at least choose multiple). That way, your second wish could count if the first one didn’t make it. Now, if the votes are split 1/3 each, you could end up with an icon that only 1/3 want, even if 2/3 preferred one of the other ones.
The winner-takes-it-all voting is a bad idea.
I think B looks the nicest of the three by far. Good use of a monochromatic color scheme, nice balance between background and foreground elements, perfectly readable at a distance.
The design direction of A is a bit busy and stands out a little too much IMO, it looks kind of out of place next to stock iOS apps. C looks a bit too amateur, and has several tangents in it that really bother me - I do like the overall idea of it, but it could really use a rework.
I know it’s not productive to say but I don’t like any of them more than the current rainbow one. 😢
![[WINNER: OPTION B] Choose Voyager's icon!](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5423bb2e-347a-4f42-b303-1c8cfbe09ab6.png){kind=link}
