Can you spot the important change in Facebook’s friends icon?

Did you notice that the little, unassuming “Friends” icon in the upper right corner of your Facebook has undergone a major makeover? Caitlin Winner, a design manager at Facebook, wrote in a Medium post today that she noticed something off about how the faceless silhouettes of a man and a woman were initially designed. While the male glyph had broad, fully rounded shoulders, the female one had an odd indentation in the shoulder on the left side — a marker, she later discovered, for the male glyph to be placed in front of her. “I assumed no ill intentions, just a…

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