On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 18:11:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/23/2012 3:51 AM, foobar wrote:
A few additional points:
# Microsoft allegedly does a lot of usability research and
they came up with the
upcoming Metro design which relies on text instead of icons. #
Regarding the
English language - Icons are supposed to be universal so it
saves money for
companies to localize their software. Localized UIs do present
a trade off in
usability: It depends which terminology is more common, the
local or the foreign
(English). E.g. "print" is easy to translate and would be
intuitive for non
techies but "bittorent" probably isn't.
One huge issue with "universal" icons is that each company
copyrights theirs. So every user interface uses deliberately
different icons.
Oh, I totally agree with you. That's why I said "supposed to". :)
I had the same issue at my last work as Don, could never figure
out the phone icons.
