[joblessjunkie]

> You have to teach the user what the icon means

Who's in charge here? The software works for me, not the other way around.

I don't want to be learning your glorious new UI, I want to be using its essential feature and getting out ASAP.

I understand that for progress to be made, ideas must be explored and risks must be taken.

But leaving out a label is not progress, it's just someone trying to save screen space on a cluttered design, and it doesn't help me.

[rpgmaker]

It's kind of silly but google changed the "share" button icon in their android youtube app a while ago and I couldn't find the share button for MONTHS even though it was in the same place. That is because the icon now looks like a "reply" icon and I never guessed that now button is used to 'share' something.

[conanbatt]

Adding text provides strain as you cant avoid reading text. It also produces huge clutter.

If you replace all the icons for text, you will feel the site looks from the 90's. Try it out on any major site with the browser.

Text label is not a silver bullet.