"The main function of an icon is to help you find what you are looking for faster. Perhaps counter-intuitively, adding an icon to everything is exactly the wrong thing to do. To stand out, things need to be different. But if everything has an icon, nothing stands out. The same applies to color: black-and-white icons look clean, but they don't help you find things faster!"
"Microsoft used to know this: Look how much faster you can find Save or Share in the right variant: It also looks cleaner. Less cluttered. A colored version would be even better (clearer separation of text from icon, faster to find): I know you won't like how it looks. I don't like it either. These icons are hard to work with. You'll have to actually design for color to look nice. But the principle stands: it is way easier to use."
macOS Tahoe applies icons to every menu item, producing unpleasant, distracting, illegible, and cluttered visuals. Icons should speed visual search; when every item has an icon, none stand out and recognition slows. Black-and-white icons look clean but do not improve findability; color can enhance separation of text and icon and accelerate identification. Effective icons require consistent, learnable mappings so users can rely on visual cues. Inconsistent or overly similar icons force users to memorize many symbols, undermining learnability, increasing visual noise, and reducing overall interface clarity and efficiency.
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