On 27 Mar 2009, at 15:25, Jared Spool wrote: [snip]
However, most functions don't have clear imagery already established. Harry Hersch did a wonderful study in the '80s that we've replicated dozens of times and is still solid: He measured how long it took the team to decide what the best icon for a given function should be. Then he measured how long it took for a user to decode the icon into the corresponding function. He found they were directly correlated. It took proportionally as long to figure out the icon as it did to decode it.
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Do you have a reference for that? It matches my experiences - but an actual study would be a useful resource to point folk at.
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