A week after Facebook redesigned its logo, the social media website has made some changes to the "friend request" icon. The icon, which previously had the female silhouette in the background, now has both the man and the woman alongside each other, according to The Verge.
Facebook designer Caitlin Winner explains how she changed the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company's icons to bring women to the forefront. She noticed that while the male friend icon was symmetrical, the female glyph had a chip on her shoulder, according to Medium.
"As a woman, educated at a women's college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in," Winner wrote. "My first idea was to draw a double silhouette, two people of equal sizes without a hard line indicating who was in front. Dozens of iterations later, I abandoned this approach after failing to make an icon that didn't look like a two-headed mythical beast. I placed the lady, slightly smaller, in front of the man."
Winner also made some changes to Facebook's "Groups" icon. The icon previously featured two men and one woman, with one of the men in the front, whereas the new logo shows the woman in the foreground, with the two men in the back, Mashable reported.
