Hi all, Please have a look at the email below, regarding a universal language icon - have you seen this before, and what are your thoughts?
Regards, Ivan. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elizabeth Matthis <elizabeth.matt...@sun.com> Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:31 PM Subject: [ux-discuss] Language icon To: disc...@ux.openoffice.org, d...@website.openoffice.org Hi All, especially Christoph and Ivan (my website refresh buddies), My attention has just been drawn to this site/icon that is supposed to be the cure to the never-ending search for a solution to flags vs. globe, etc to signify a provided choice of languages. http://www.languageicon.org/ http://www.languageicon.org/examples.php I would not have intuitively recognized this icon as having anything to do with languages (it is supposed to symbolize a tongue in a mouth, so why isn't it round-shaped?. Hmm), but I think a movement to get a universal icon is basically a good idea. Have you ever come across this icon anywhere? I did a brief search but did not find it used on a coin collectors site where it supposedly had been adopted. http://languageicon.blogspot.com/2008/09/colnect-uses-language-icon.html What do you all think of such an icon? I'm certainly not saying we should use it (esp if it is completely unknown and possibly non-intuitive). I've set the "Reply to" to the UX list because I see this as a usability thing, but I wrote to both Website and UX because both teams might be as curious as me about this language icon idea. Liz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@ux.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@ux.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
