Re: Icons for page types

[Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson gmail com>]

On 28 March 2010 10:16, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:59 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> In Yelp 3, we have the location entry which displays an icon
>> alongside the title of the page you're viewing.  Icons are
>> also shown in the history dropdown.  And as of this week,
>> I have them in an auto-complete dropdown when you type into
>> the search field.
>>
>> See my blog post for an idea of how the icons look:
>>
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2010/03/11/more-yelp-3-0-location-entry/
>>
>> I've been thinking about how best to use the icons.  Users
>> will generally be looking at an individual help file in a
>> single window.  It's not really useful to show the Empathy
>> icon over and over again for every page in the Empathy help.
>>
>> What I'm considering is having icons for certain common page
>> types.  So we'd have an icon for tasks, overviews, problems,
>> guides, etc.  I think this would be particularly helpful in
>> the auto-complete dropdown.
>
> I'm attaching three rough ideas for page type icons.
> Please excuse my poor artistic skills. Obviously we'd
> want a real artist to do final versions.
>
> These aren't named in any way that indicates what they
> are. I'd like people to guess, to see if the metaphors
> convey anything useful. And I'd love it if people could
> get non-documentation friends and family to guess too.
> People on this list are probably primed to give biased
> answers.
>
> --
> Shaun McCance
> http://syllogist.net/


For what it's worth...

1) video, possibly screencast or similar
2) hint/tip
3) index
4) ???


Regards,

Russell Dickenson