Designing meaningful Icons for "Fault mediator" , "Aggregate Mediator" can be easy enough, but for complex synarios it will be hard to represent the idea and grasp the idea from the icon as well. From the users perspective when user tries to read a flow of elements, it will be easy for the user if there is a word attached to it where he can read it on the spot rather than try to find it by going through a documentation. I personally like the first one but the third one is more color contrasting, which adds one more plus point for the users to bind memories to associated color patterns of icons. One minus point in the third one I see is that, the text representation is bit inconsistent compared to the first one.
thanks, Chanaka On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Personally I don't like them .. they're going to be too complicated at >> the 50x50 type size they're in reality. Second, the words in the icons >> don't make sense IMO. > > Yes. > I think the words are not needed on icons. We just have to make sure the > icon is meaningful. > >> Third the colors seem too strong? Of course I'm color blind so my color >> choices are not one to bet on. > > > > > > -- > Isuru Perera > > Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrishantha | LinkedIn: > http://lk.linkedin.com/in/chrishantha/ > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- Chanaka Jayasena Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 785 5565 blog: http://chanaka3d.blogspot.com
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