CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Icon Design, Digital Image, Richard Florida

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Picture superiority effect pictures can be more memorable than their verbal counterparts. Symbols, pictograms, and icons are widely used components of user interfaces (for navigation, status indication, function invocation(help you preform certain function)) Pictograms: images that represent a word; symbolic representation of symbol or idea. Icons: graphic on a visual display terminal represent both functions (actions) and objects on the computer. Well designed icons and symbols can have advantages over commands and labels. Easier & faster to learn when the size of the symbol is small. Icons are time sensitive, culturally relevant, and poorly designed icons are problematic. Johannes kepler and the retinal image 1604 upside down 2 dimensional. Perceptual hypothesis (1940s) constructivists believe external world cannot be directly perceived because of the poverty of info in retinal images. The ecological approach to perception (1950s): james gibson info available in the visual environment to an active observer provides info to viewer.