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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
English Français Deutsch Suomi
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
Bank
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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