CreativePro.com is one of my favorite Email newsletters. In fact, I think this is the only newsletter that does not get sent to trash. This week Terri Stone wrote an article about Adobe’s new icons for CS3. Immediately, I visualized that periodical chart hanging on the wall, in my chemistry class in High School. I am not liking these icons, I cannot see the logic.

I have always upheld Adobe, Macromedia and Mac OS as the best in software usability. Using these products since their inception has spoiled me. Truly, they knew their users, they understood the logic of a creative. The most important rule of UI to me is understanding the USERS. The second rule is NO memorization. Memorizing letters – ouch! This is why I probably why I so disliked chemistry, I had to memorize that damn periodic table. I could easily understand the properties of each element. In fact, if the periodic table contained pictorial icons, I would have probably loved chemistry.

So what is wrong with the butterfly, the pink flower, the feather, the green thing-a-m-jig, the yellow thingy and all those lovely desktops icons I recognize, these are like faces. So faces grow old, why not the icons.

OK, now my desktop tray is going to look like a science project.

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