IAT 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Icon Design, Floppy Disk
15 Nov 2012
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Remember: can"t know it until you try it. To clarify, add detail - clutter and overload are not an attribute of information; they are a failure of design. It"s not symptomatic of how much info you have, but how you present the info. Classification of signs: icons - literal visual representations, symbols - abstract representations - symbols are often learned, but some can carry meaning just from shape, indexes - representation by connection. Types of (computer) icons: application, functional - let you do something, usually in toolbars (example, save floppy disk icon, navigation icons, format - change orientation, way to change how you"re viewing something. Icon design - anatomy of an icon: slide about changes in icon size as technology improves, crystal clear information about what it is and does, but it also scalable. What makes symbols and language work: people understand it! A third dimension makes something feel much more clickable.
