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

date posted 12th January 2005 21:20

On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 6:12 pm, Luke Perman wrote:
> 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'...

Something that interests me is that the icons you frequently see
on roadsigns, in airports etc, frequently depict obsolete versions
of whatever it is. For example, speed camera signs often show=20
a camera with bellows; the signs for telephone show old-fashioned
phones with dials; and so on.