Change Revision Tab Icon

[srushtirk]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The icon, when seen without the labels, do not match to real world representation of ‘revision’ and is misleading as found during user studies. Students often opened the revision tab when asked to start learning.

Current revision tab icon:

Describe the solution you'd like
Update revision icon to below:

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternatives considered in this doc: @https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1oD8LTH71BBsXxn5R1F8To3EsV786w0q-EQFcb4hRiik/edit

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

cc: @mschanteltc

[BenHenning]

Is the proposed icon a material icon @srushtirk? Or, is there a material icon alternative that we can use?

[om-khandade]

No it is not a material icon. An alternative could be "Format List Bulleted".

[srushtirk]

@om-khandade Won't the users will get confused between lessons and revision tab is we use 'format list bulleted' icon for revision? I believe this won't solve the current user pain point of not being able to distinguish between lessons and revision tab intuitively.

[srushtirk]

@BenHenning here is the material icon.

[BenHenning]

For searching context, this issue was found in 0.6-alpha (MR3).

[pratyaksh1610]

@BenHenning I would like to work on this issue .
Since it is inactive.
Can I be assigned ?
Thanks.

[BenHenning]

@pratyaksh1610 this is available to work on--happy to assign it to you.

[BenHenning]

Actually scratch that, we need to verify that the new icon will solve the original concern for the issue. @seanlip it would be nice to have product feedback on this.

[seanlip]

I just chatted with @om-khandade, and here are some updates to what is currently in this thread:

• The revision icon proposed in the original comment was created by @om-khandade and is a non-material icon.
• "Format List Bulleted" seems like the closest alternative in the Material Icon list (when Om last checked it), but it's not clear that it would be intuitive. https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=format+list+bulleted
• The icon Srushti subsequently gave in Change Revision Tab Icon  #4086 (comment) is not a Material icon.

I'll post a follow-up to "what we should do" in the next comment.

[seanlip]

Based on a discussion between @om-khandade and I, here is what we propose:

• If the icon needs to be a material icon (or if that is strongly preferred), we can go with list-alt: https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=list+alt&icon.style=Outlined
• If it doesn't need to be a material icon, then @om-khandade can make a version of list-alt with an arrow in the bottom right, and we can use that.

@BenHenning Could you please advise on the desirability of using icons from the standard Material set? If other icons are also OK, could you please let us know what constraints they will need to satisfy (e.g. file format, size, etc.)? Thanks.

[BenHenning]

@seanlip a Material icon isn't strictly needed (though it can simplify things slightly since we can pull it in through third-party dependencies rather than including our own icon). I'm happy to go with our own icon so long as it's a vector graphic and matches the aesthetic of other Material icons used in the app. Besides that, we should go with whatever icon works best with learners.

[seanlip]

Thanks @BenHenning! Sounds good -- assigning to @om-khandade to supply the icon so that it can be replaced.

[om-khandade]

Here is the icon to be used.

[seanlip]

Thanks, @om-khandade!

@pratyaksh1610 -- I think you can now go ahead with this, if you'd like to. Thanks!

[pratyaksh1610]

@seanlip Thankyou for assigning me, I am working on it.