Comments on: Icons are evil; so are menus – unless you do them right http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/11/icons-are-evil-so-are-menus-unless-you-do-them-right/ The Fastest Way to Launch Successful Software Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AndyEd http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/11/icons-are-evil-so-are-menus-unless-you-do-them-right/#comment-9007 AndyEd Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:08:24 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1270#comment-9007 Michael Byrne has done some nice experimental work on icon usability. Simplicity is key -- if you can't get universal understandability, simplicity is the essential to making learning easy. Full research trace at http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/pubs.html. Initial work at http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/Pubs/interchi93.pdf and for a more rocket science view, check out the eye-tracking + cognitive modeling of the more recent http://chil.rice.edu/research/pdf/iccm03-fleetwood.pdf Michael Byrne has done some nice experimental work on icon usability. Simplicity is key — if you can’t get universal understandability, simplicity is the essential to making learning easy.

Full research trace at http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/pubs.html. Initial work at http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/Pubs/interchi93.pdf and for a more rocket science view, check out the eye-tracking + cognitive modeling of the more recent http://chil.rice.edu/research/pdf/iccm03-fleetwood.pdf

]]> By: Stu Collett http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/11/icons-are-evil-so-are-menus-unless-you-do-them-right/#comment-9006 Stu Collett Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:16:39 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1270#comment-9006 Great article. Thanks for sharing. Stu Collett Great article.

Thanks for sharing.

Stu Collett

]]> By: T.J. http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/11/icons-are-evil-so-are-menus-unless-you-do-them-right/#comment-9005 T.J. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:19:43 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1270#comment-9005 Someone please forward this to the MS Office Devs. Someone please forward this to the MS Office Devs.

]]> By: EP http://pathfindersoftware.com/2008/11/icons-are-evil-so-are-menus-unless-you-do-them-right/#comment-9004 EP Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:49:30 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=1270#comment-9004 I think what you mean to say is that icons don't make a bad interface better. I think what you mean to say is that icons don’t make a bad interface better.

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