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These eye-tracking heatmaps reveal whether these logo changes were a mistake or an improvement (FB, TWTR, YHOO)

DragonflyWhen brands release new icons and logos, previously loyal customers often groan with frustration. This happened when Instagram changed its app icon at the start of May. The flatter, more abstract design was described by Adweek as possibly "one of the biggest design fails of the year." But the industry trade title was wrong, according to new analysis from Dragonfly, a design-analysis app created by Black Swan and researchers from Queen Mary University of London. The new logo is actually 10% more engaging to the human eye than its predecessor, according to the app. Dragonfly uses a computational model to process the visual characteristics of what someone is looking at (orientation, contrast, texture, luminance) to assign a stimulus attention score to every pixel, demonstrating its attractiveness.

 

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