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From: msc@qubix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ICONS
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Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 13:36:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 12 13:36:31 1983
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	Once again you're are missing the point about icons.  The idea is
	that once you know what they mean you can recognize them much faster
	than the equivalent words.  I don't know of anyone who claims that
	that icons are immediately and precisely recognisable.

	Think how much worse shape you would have been in if the chokes in
	the various cars had been labelled in the the language of the
	country where the car was made.  I know the problem; I was born in
	Europe.  It's not easy.  That's why we developed standard pictorial
	road signs and in-car controls.  The fact that you can recognise the
	pictorial road sign much faster than the equivalent string of words
	(even when they are in a language you understand) helps enormously too.
-- 
	Mark
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