Easy on the icons! (was Re: Native GUI Squeak?)
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Sun Feb 18 02:17:37 UTC 2001
>In particular, an *icon* means nothing to me until I can *name* it
>audibly. I can't recall it, I can't recognize it ... until I
>sound-out the name of it again, and then I get access to all the
>semantics and learning I've had about that *name*, but never the icon
>directly.
Jef Raskin makes a similar criticism of such use of icons in "The
Humane Interface." An interesting read.
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