So different colors is a good point as far as picking the difference goes.
But they got to be noticeably different.

The good thing about concept one is the clear imaging in there. So we need
a combination of concept one and three where we could have clear imaging
and clear color based differentiation to help pick the right one to match
the need from the bunch of options available, while you are at the task of
developing.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Kasun Indrasiri <[email protected]> wrote:

> - We thought of including the text along with the icon, because all
> mediators cannot be represented with just an icon. EIPs can be used for few
> mediators, but not all mediators cannot be represented with EIP icons. And
> the text below the icon can be anything (such as a comment) that user wants
> to add (which will be saved as the sequence/mediation description in the
> config).
> - I prefer the icon shape as with concept-3 with a different color scheme
> (and with out fancy colored icons inside)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Chanaka Jayasena <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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