We’ve already covered Kaleidoscope, the file comparison app from the folks at Sofa, here on Beautiful Pixels. When the app came out, Milind was in awe looking at the app’s webpage and claimed that it was more beautiful than the app itself. But me, on the other hand, was quite impressed by the app’s icon. The unusually nice blend of colors in the icon, with the rotating, color changing animation of it on the webpage had me looking staring at it continuously.
Today, Jasper Hauser, Sofa’s designer explains their thought process and what went into the making of the Kaleidoscope icon on their company blog. It’s amazing how many iterations they had to go through to finally settle on that astonishing icon.
Go ahead and visit the link. It’s a great read.