Icons
“Icons!” are a recurring topic of discussion. Icons are added to make a design more humane. While the inner → Soup Nazi would like to dismiss them as a popular form of → Barcelona and categorically replace them with text, doing so results in cold design that communicates badly. Designing icons is one of the hardest disciplines. It requires a systematic approach with maximum attention to detail, form, language and context. Icons are a form of → Lace that at a certain point we seem to not be able to do without. Good icons are as few icons as needed but not less.
