Re: FN-FORUM: What are the widely accepted icons...?

date posted 12th January 2005 16:59

On 12 Jan 2005, at 15:43, Tony Crockford wrote:

> some of the links on that page are also quite fruitful.

yea, some of those links are cool... (especially like 'bullet madness')


but i'm not really after icon designers or their collections - i'm more
interested in HCI guidelines type of stuff of publicly accepted images
- the icons that are embedded in peoples psyches as meaning something -
such as a magnifying glass for 'search'...


maybe i'm searching for something that doesn't exist yet - and need to
figure it out myself!

there must have been some study somewhere on this though.

the apple HCI guidelines are a good start:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/
OSXHIGuidelines/index.html


but once again, they are primarily concerned with stuff ('nouns?')
rather than verbs - such as Get, FInd, Search, Register ...

which is what I'm after.

L.

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