Amazon changes app icon after Nazi scandal
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Amazon spontaneously changed its recently redesigned smartphone shopping app icon again. The reason for the new adjustment is supposed to be “user feedback”.
Amazon only changed the icon of its shopping app at the end of January. Instead of the previous shopping cart with the word logo, a symbol should now be established that arouses associations with the parcel packaging used by Amazon. You can see a cardboard box with the sender’s characteristic arrow and a blue adhesive tape applied with a standard dispenser.
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The Nazi comparison screwed up Amazon’s intention
Mockery quickly became loud on social media and online media as well. For many, the resemblance to Adolf Hitler was so evident that the British Sun even headlined: “YOU CAN’T NAZI IT!” This is a phonetic corruption of “You can’t not see it”, ie “You can’t not see it.” The statement is intended to make it clear that everyone who has ever heard the appropriate Association, can never see anything else in it again.
The new icon was only rolled out on iOS devices in the UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Since the end of February, Amazon has been rolling out the new logo across all platforms worldwide – and is providing another surprise.
Without further notice, the e-commerce giant has adapted its logo again these days. The symbolization of the parcel tape has remained, but now less jagged and with the best will no longer to be misunderstood as a beard. Instead, it now looks like you’ve stuck a Post-it on the package and then bent it off at one corner.
Change destroys logo
The mild skeuomorphism of the jagged parcel tape was in any case closer to the reality of the parcel optics than the current unclear symbolism. In fact, Amazon had imagined that customers would first see the characteristic package on their smartphone and then on their doorstep.
So let the new icon be designed “to arouse anticipation, excitement and joy when customers start their shopping trip on their phone, just as they do when they see our parcels on their doorstep.” not much gained for the company.
That will have been the considerations of the Amazon marketers when the decision was made to “defuse” the logo. It should come as no surprise if Amazon were to introduce a completely different logo in a relatively short time.
Because the current version is neither half nor whole in terms of design.
