The New Macintosh HD Icon Just Looks Kinda Bad ⇥ macrumors.com

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

Apple has been updating some classic Mac icons during the macOS Tahoe beta, upsetting some longtime Mac users who prefer the original look. In beta 5, Apple changed the design of the built-in Mac storage icon, which you’ll notice if you have it on your desktop.

I want to put a finer point on the problem with this icon: it is not a mere aesthetic preference or a reaction to change, but a simple acknowledgement that this icon is not good. It has a generic quality, a lack of personality. The perspective does not make sense, either. It is just a sad grey box without any connection to literal data storage on a modern Mac, the “Macintosh HD” label beside it on the Desktop, or any object in the real world. It feels like a first draft. I know we are still in the beta process, but I have little confidence it will progress much beyond what we see now.