Re: User interface suggestions

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

thristian atdot org wrote:

> On the other hand, I've known a few people who think the O2K icons are
> lousy - not least because they're all the same shape, and they don't
> make use of the color-depth available to them.
>
> But in general, Microsoft icon design is very good. I began to learn
> the "Microsoft style" in the Win3.1 days, and it's simple but
> effective.

Please cf. that list of people against how many of them had to learn what those
icons did for the first time vs. how many were fairly proficient with Office and
already knew (and therefore prefered eye-candy to functionality).

A good example of bad icons: download a copy of Pegasus for Windows ... its a free
Email client that uses all kinds of icons that are quite simple and colourful but
hard to distinguish initially.
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Michael T. Babcock, C.T.O. FibreSpeed
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock