I'm guessing you eat donuts and muffins for breakfast and take your coffee black -- isn't that what everybody does? ;-)
Growing up in India, we used to use this thing that apparently came on wires -- though I have never actually see it with my eyes, I kinda believe the wise people who assured us it did. We used to attach the wires to a set of holes in the wall that the Village Elders told us never to explore because there were Evil Demons present in there. Perhaps because of their Evil Nature, the Wise Ones chose never to place any symbol next to the Wall Holes, lest the symbols imbue the Evil Demons with more vengeful power than they already possessed. Since the Gods have now decreed that there is No Other Way to graphically represent an On/Off switch I think we should hereafter accept it as our totem. Sorry to sound like a troll, but I am amused by the 'No Other Way' perspective among some designers. I think it is possible to both acknowledge that there might be few options but to learn an arbitrarily developed symbol as well as understand and accept that there are going to be issues relating to having it universally recognized. This is just being realistic. Designing while esconced in an ivory tower is not particularly useful. Regards, murli On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Weixi Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...I'm guessing you don't use a power outlet ;) > > I don't see why there is so much hesitation to use the icon. For whatever > reason or other, this circle IO has become a standard. Anyone who uses > electricity (and those would be people using web apps) has probably > encounted it. That's why it is safe to use in the OP's situation. > > Also... > > http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=power+icon&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi > > There's really no other way to graphically represent an On/Off switch... > -- murli nagasundaram, ph.d. | www.murli.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +91 99 02 69 69 20 ________________________________________________________________ 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
