Comments on: Standard icons http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/ The republic of Jens Wedin (with me as the president) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Daniel http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3216 Daniel Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:36:50 +0000 http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3216 <p>Yeah, but not much difference between pdf and word documents in mac, pc and linux.</p> Yeah, but not much difference between PDF and word documents in mac, pc and linux.

]]> By: Jens http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3214 Jens Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:43:35 +0000 http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3214 <p>Daniel: Thanks for the comment, I agree that system icons should not be changed. Too bad that system icons do look different from system to system aka Win/Linux/Mac.</p> Daniel: Thanks for the comment, I agree that system icons should not be changed. Too bad that system icons do look different from system to system aka Win/Linux/Mac.

]]> By: Daniel http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3209 Daniel Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:11:21 +0000 http://jedisthlm.com/2006/03/03/standard-icons/#comment-3209 <p>They should be inconsistent to the systems icons like pdf and word. If you redesign commonly recognized icons like pdf and word with new colours it will just confuse users.</p> <p>Standalone icons without labels are much overrated and should only be used where user efficiency is the most important usability objective.</p> They should be inconsistent to the systems icons like PDF and word. If you redesign commonly recognized icons like PDF and word with new colours it will just confuse users.

Standalone icons without labels are much overrated and should only be used where user efficiency is the most important usability objective.

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