[gurkendoktor]

> Things like Fitt's Law and so on. It was not just opinion.

Here's another one: "users were roughly 37% faster at finding items when visual indicators varied both in color and icon compared to text alone"

Source: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-indicators-different...

The whole point of the settings app shown in the OP's screenshots is to quickly find the relevant section in the sidebar. But even before the great design madness of 2012, designers have started to remove icon colors everywhere. (Except for app icons, where Google and Apple have now removed shapes instead, sigh.)

From the sidelines, it doesn't look like the trend is reversing in GNOME land. https://twitter.com/hadessuk/status/1506316793413087241

[tauntz]

> "users were roughly 37% faster at finding items when visual indicators varied both in color and icon compared to text alone"

Reminds me of https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/927/386/c4d...