The document discusses effective use of icons and images in user interfaces. It promotes registering for a virtual seminar on the topic presented by Patrick Hofmann on December 3, 2009. The document cautions that icons can have different meanings in different cultural regions and provides examples of icons that may be interpreted differently depending on factors like language, geography, religion, gender and age.

1. 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/

2. make icons make sense Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney

3. What is this?

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

5. How do we define “cultural regions”?  Political borders  Languages  Geographical regions  Religions  Gender  Age English Français Deutsch Suomi

6. 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

7. Bank

8. Business

9. Beware of falling cows

10. Beware of hungry cows

11. 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/