[goblin89]

It won't make much sense to do in one app. Users (except for Firefly fans and/or Chinese learners) will hate it, because the complex design of hanzi is optimized for having thousands of these characters to distinguish between.

Now, if we had all the icons in all apps replaced consistently with Chinese simplified characters—that would be fun. I don't think it would be such a disaster (except to icon design business profits), after we rediscover how functions map to pictures again we'll continue to utilize UIs as usual. Admittedly a bit slower because of more complex hanzi shape, but without having to deal with badly designed or inconsistently used icons[0].

And also we'll be sure that when a new concept appears we will have an icon for that. If not—well, we'll start combining hanzi.

[0] An example of one such goof: http://plus.google.com/photos/108564542236590882918/albums/p...