[IxDA Discuss] The infamous \'generic gray head\' icon: Your design experiences, stats?

2009-07-15 Thread Dana
Hi everyone, I'm currently involved in a spirited discussion about the usefulness of those beloved 'generic gray head' placeholder icons. (You know, the ones in address book applications, IM clients, and other spots where a user might want to assign a personal image to a contact or other entity.)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The infamous \'generic gray head\' icon: Your design experiences, stats?

2009-07-15 Thread J. Ambrose Little
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dana d...@danasmithdesigns.com wrote: I think it's reasonable to assume that 'many' or 'most' people don't go to the trouble of manually changing these. I'd like to have more to support my theory, but a cursory web search on this topic hasn't turned up much.