Re: FN-FORUM: What are the widely accepted icons...?

date posted 12th January 2005 19:50

At 18:12 on Wednesday, 12 Jan 2005, Luke Perman wrote:

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> On 12 Jan 2005, at 15:43, Tony Crockford wrote:
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>> some of the links on that page are also quite fruitful.
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> yea, some of those links are cool... (especially like 'bullet madness')
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> but i'm not really after icon designers or their collections - i'm more
> interested in HCI guidelines type of stuff of publicly accepted images -
> the icons that are embedded in peoples psyches as meaning something -
> such as a magnifying glass for 'search'...

ah, I think you're pushing the envelope...

in my recollection recently the first link was the only one of the
bloggers that has started to study commonality of icons.

however, have a look here:

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

and follow some of the links back, these are the people that are looking
at how and why we design what we do.

e.g.

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/learning_to_love_the_pixel_exploring_the_craft_of_icon_design.php

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/cognitive_psychology_ia_from_theory_to_practice.php


but you might have to draft your own study....

;o)