Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!mit-vax!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!cbosgd!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!grunwald From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: ICONS: Passing Fad or New Found Wisd - (nf) Message-ID: <2324@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 23:47:24 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2324 Posted: Mon Jun 27 23:47:24 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jun-83 11:06:08 EDT Lines: 13 #R:sri-arpa:-243400:uiuccsb:12800001:000:594 uiuccsb!grunwald Jun 27 15:07:00 1983 I would agree that you're being somewhat cynical about "cutsey" icons. I think that Icons have a definite place in modern computer systems. Since they are pictorial, they are not language specific. Anyone comming from a Western heritage would be able to recognize the "garbage can" icon on the Apple Lisa, and coule probably infer that that is where one puts things that one doesn't want any more. The ability to cross language, if not cultural, barriers with icons is fairly important for computer vendors (not to mention the people who have no language, as laura pointed out so well).