Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: ICONS Message-ID: <375@qubix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 13:36:31 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.375 Posted: Tue Jul 12 13:36:31 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 22:57:39 EDT References: <2915@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 18 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 ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA