Effective Use of Icons & Images

Effective Use of Icons & Images A UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday, December 3, 2009 Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney Register your team today at: http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/

make icons make sense Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney

What is this?

What is this?
 In a hardware store?  In the margin of a user guide?  In a cartoon above someone’s head?

How do we define “cultural regions”?
 Political borders
 Languages
 Geographical regions
 Religions
 Gender
 Age
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Right and wrong/ do and don’t
 Refrain from using the checkmark and X in global documents  Although Scandinavians are aware of check = correct and X = incorrect , they’re often used to mean “remove” & “select” respectively

Business

Beware of falling cows

Beware of hungry cows

Effective Use of Icons & Images A UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday, December 3, 2009 Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney Register your team today at: http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/

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