On 30/01/2010, at 7:59 AM, River Brandon wrote: > there is obvious, and there is memorable. the two are not always the same. i > submit that if the icon is elegant, creative, and pleasing, it will be > memorable. obvious is best suited for cases where the risk of confusion is > high. i don't think that's necessarily true here. > > that is not to say that obvious is bad. but personally, i think it's too low > a bar to set. i would suggest we aim for memorable. > > some non-obvious, yet (subjectively) great application icons: > > <icons.jpg>
Interestingly enough, four of these were icons that came to mind earlier when I was thinking about this. Coda, Transmit, NNW and Safari. Lots of other good examples, but these are all nice, and well designed/implemented. Robin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
