{"id":23550,"date":"2018-11-30T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:22:59","slug":"redesigning-the-office-app-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/redesigning-the-office-app-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Redesigning the Office App Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/microsoft-design\/redesigning-the-office-app-icons-to-embrace-a-new-world-of-work-91d72608ee8f\">Jon Friedman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/microsoft-design\/redesigning-the-office-app-icons-to-embrace-a-new-world-of-work-91d72608ee8f\">\n<p>As a signal to our customers, we&rsquo;ve evolved our Office icons to reflect these significant product changes. We&rsquo;re thrilled to share the new icons for Office 365 with you today and tell the story behind their creation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Our design solution was to decouple the letter and the symbol in the icons, essentially creating two panels (one for the letter and one for the symbol) that we can pair or separate. This allows us to maintain familiarity while still emphasizing simplicity inside the app.<\/p>\n<p>Separating these into two panels also adds depth, which sparks opportunities in 3D contexts. Through this flexible system, we keep tradition alive while gently pushing the envelope.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/redesigning-adobes-file-type-icon-system-language\/\">Redesigning Adobe&rsquo;s File Type Icon System Language<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Friedman: As a signal to our customers, we&rsquo;ve evolved our Office icons to reflect these significant product changes. We&rsquo;re thrilled to share the new icons for Office 365 with you today and tell the story behind their creation. [&#8230;] Our design solution was to decouple the letter and the symbol in the icons, essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-30T19:40:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"30604683-8fb1-46e8-80a8-6868eb653a32","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-03T19:23:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMGBGg4-xRuiAqGho62U6Mg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[545,37,577],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-icons","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23557,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}