It’s all about understanding by design.
“The tighter the mapping between icons and the thing they represent, the easier they are to understand, but standardization can also make an icon easy.”
(Jakob Nielsen a.k.a. @NNgroup)
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iconography
Icon usability
Icons, the field of Kare.
“A user’s understanding of an icon is based on previous experience. Due to the absence of a standard usage for most icons, text labels are necessary to communicate the meaning and reduce ambiguity.”
The woman behind Apple’s first icons
Honoring our historical roots is what makes us more mature as a relevant domain in world history. Even though is still three decades old, sort of.
“Thirty years ago, as tech titans battled for real estate in the personal computer market, an inconspicuous young artist gave the Macintosh a smile. Susan Kare was the type of kid who always loved art. As a child, she lost herself in drawings, paintings, and crafts; as a young woman, she dove into art history and had grandeur dreams of being a world-renowned fine artist.”
(Zachary Crockett a.k.a. @zzcrockett ~ Priceonomics)
In defense of floppy disks: The vocabulary of the interface
Librarians and their iconography. A perfect match.
“But librarians are a naturally curious and skeptical people and one round of qualitative research would not satisfy them.”
(Lis Pardi a.k.a. @LisPardi ~ Boxes and Arrows)