> I think you would have to travel pretty far to find > a country where people didn't know the meaning of > 0 and 1. And if you where even able to find a country > that didn't know 0 from 1, didn't have engineers and > didn't have electricity they wouldn't need a power > button anyway :-)
To be honest, I didn't even know that it is a 0 / 1 until I read this discussion. If they are a zero and one, they should look like real letters, not abstract shapes. Zeros are generally not perfect circles, in almost any standard font. In any case, once one learns that they are a 0 / 1, they must then find the proper mapping. Which one is off, and which is on? 0 should be off, 1 should be on, but I can't say whether that transfers across cultures. I understand that the concept of zero has different backgrounds across the world and is quite different in the East. Then there's the added confusion of closed and open circuits. In that case, it should be the opposite (the 0 or closed circuit means on). I definitely see where you're coming from with standardization, but I've never felt that it was a good standard. Sometimes the status quo simply isn't good enough; I think the power icon is a fine candidate for that. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
