Let’s take a look at the top 5 design news that got you talking this year round

Millions of people around the world turned on their smartphones and scanned their screens for the black-and-white Uber icon, only to find it was missing! Instead they found a colourful geometric shape — hexagonal if they drove, circular if they were a rider — surrounding a small, bit-like square. Not just that, the colours and patterns varied from country to country — red in China, turquoise in India, dark teal in the United States — but everywhere, the app will opened with an elegant, patterned animation, welcoming users to the new Uber.

The re-branding of Uber

The rebranding of Uber had many wondering if the company had taken a wrong turn. There was a continuous buzz about the design, so much so that the design head of Uber, Andrew Crow, stepped down in a month’s span.

On 11th May 2016, Instagram was totally trending on Twitter. It got a completely new look — the icons and the entire app! Keeping to the concept of the previous app icon, the new one too had a simpler camera and the rainbow had a gradient form. It was indeed full of colours and much more lively in appearance.

Instagram’s new look

The crowd in favour and against the revamp was distributed. But, for or against, everybody was talking about it..

I am pretty sure, you would recall this tweet that made the design community go crazy on twitter within few hours!

Spencer Chen, vice president of marketing and business development for the Chinese online retailer Alibaba, exposed the similarities between these companies’ logos and ones printed in a 1989 design book, “Trademarks & Symbols of the World”, which had illustrations of nearly identical logos to those of modern companies — Medium, Airbnb, Flipboard and Beats.

Designers on Twitter were quick to point out that this sort of thing happens a lot in the design world, especially in logos where there’s a finite combination of abstract letters to construct.

The Facebook feed suddenly got a lot more expressive. As they rightly said, everything in the feeds isn’t likeable — They may be funny or loveable or sad and so on... After a long user research Facebook came up with six new reactions to any post.

Facebook reactions

DC comics updated their logo design in May 2016. Drawing on DC’s extensive 80 years of heritage, the new identity brought together classic designs and retro fonts associated with the brand and gave them a contemporary spin.

The rebranding of the DC comics icon

Loyal fans of DC came up in great support of the new icon as it was evident from their twitter handles! However, the chunky, chipped font and circular motif didn’t win everyone over.