My knee jerk reaction is to agree with this post— it's design by committee, shed painting, whatever you want to call it.<p>"This just makes me think that each individual app team submitter their own design for an icon based on some loose guidelines and they all got thrown together into a bucket"<p>Probably resonates with me the hardest— personally, I think the apps look great, but the icons really just look "off" to me. To each their own, I suppose.
Right on spot.<p>The icons are middleway between photorealist and pictograms, and end looking neither, just childish and unpolished.<p>The lack of affordances (no obvious buttons) will hurt usability a lot, as will the pale white backgrounds on everything.<p>It looks like UI designed by graphical ("paper") designers. Awful.