u/Senior-Top-1742

Like… sometimes the UI looks completely fine,
but one icon keeps feeling off no matter what you do.
You change the stroke.
Adjust spacing.
Try another metaphor.
Still weird.
And I’ve noticed something:
Most of the time, the issue isn’t even the icon itself.
It’s the meaning behind it.
Take the “share” icon for example.
Sometimes it means send.
Sometimes repost.
Sometimes export or upload.
Same icon.
Different actions.
we keep redesigning the symbol…
when the real problem is the action was never clear in the first place.
So
I think that’s why icons get so frustrating.
They don’t usually fail visually.
They fail because users interpret them differently.
Have you ever had an icon that looked “correct” visually…
but still didn’t feel right in the UI?