[alternatex]

>I'm much faster at quickly spotting an icon

Using the label-less example in the article with the 10x10 monochrome icons I doubt many other people feel the same.

[stanac]

> 10x10 monochrome icons

I don't mind the size, but lack of colors is annoying. If common icons where color-coded, like green to save, blue to download/print/export, red to delete, UI would be friendlier to use.

[swiftcoder]

> If common icons where color-coded... UI would be friendlier to use

As a colour-blind person, this sounds like accessibility hell. Don't forget your UIs still need to be friendly in what amounts to monochrome

[vasco]

Monochrome is a strange complaint, the text is also monochrome. Regarding what most people think I don't know, I'm definitely faster at spotting a specific pictogram in the start of a line than having to read multiple lower information-density pictograms (alphabet characters) in order (reading a full word or sentence). This seems obvious to me, 1 thing is faster to parse than multiple things.