Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
These are icons to be treasured.
What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.
When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.