Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
It depends of the quality of the FREEZE. Freeze may refer to: Freezing, the physical process Freeze (breakdance move), the halting of all movement in a clever position Freeze (computing), when computer software becoming unresponsive Freeze (exhibition), an influential art show which established the Young British Artists Freeze (software engineering), a period of stricter rules for changing the software The Freeze, a punk rock band from Boston, Massachusetts The Freeze (UK), a punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, pre-Cindytalk Freeze drying, a method of rapidly removing moisture from food products Freeez, a British dance music band, known for their 1983 hit A-E-I-O-U But the icon must be something static and white/ blue. :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23199 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
Well, I think I would go with the snow flake centered in addition also to a small sized classical pause symbol maybe right aligned and by this we have conveyed the idea of Freezing/Pausing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23199 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
I don't know the right context for your freeze metaphor, but since I'm an Architect by education I use AutoCAD every now and then and they have a concept of freezing layers. The way they do it is with a snowflake (kind of an asterisk) icon badge on top of the layer icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23199 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
An object (may be a cube) and a tick together can represent FREEZE, if it means finalize in the usage scenario. FONT face=verdana color=#00407f size=1STRONG/STRONG/FONTnbsp; FONT face=verdana color=#0060bf size=1STRONGsuneel posimreddy/STRONG/FONT FONT face=arial color=#737373 size=1An Image isnbsp;Worthnbsp;Thousand Words/FONT - Original Message From: Bruno Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 4:21:50 PM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze I don't know the right context for your freeze metaphor, but since I'm an Architect by education I use AutoCAD every now and then and they have a concept of freezing layers. The way they do it is with a snowflake (kind of an asterisk) icon badge on top of the layer icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23199 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
My Suggestion : The Pause symbol [II]. Easy to understand and is found in most consumer electronic devices (ipods, AV players, remote controls). Rajesh Sundaram IxD Zoho *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
[IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
Hi all! Can you suggest some good links or any ideas for designing a suitable icon to denote freeze image and freeze screen? Kindly get back with any ideas that bouce ur head. Regards, Preeti *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
yes, great recommendation! Horton's book is 13 or 14 yrs old but still valid today as it was when it came out. it's a fantastic resource for understanding the theory and practical considerations when designing icons and visual metaphors. On Dec 3, 2007 8:36 AM, Chauncey Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would suggest that you try the method called braindrawing which is a visual type of brainstorming. Here are the basic instructions: 1. Each member of a group is invited to explore solutions to a visual problem statement by sketching solutions for a designed period of time. 2. The sketches are passed on to another person. 3. The second person then enhances or adds something to the sketch or creates a new sketch and then passes all the sketches on a page to yet another person. 4. The process is repeated for several iterations. For example, you might do five iterations of braindrawing with the first iteration lasting 10 minutes (the first person has a blank page and might need more time to get started) followed by four, five-minute enhancement iterations. 5. At the end of a braindrawing session, all the sketches created by the group are posted in an art gallery where colleagues and participants in the braindrawing session can review the sketches and discuss which ideas should be considered further. 6. The post-braindrawing discussion should be recorded. The group can vote on the best ideas and then prioritize them further at the end of the session or at a separate session. The ideas can also evaluated by a different group. This is a simple technique which can generate many ideas. The second approach is to brainstorming metaphors associated with cold, the process of getting colder, etc and then brainstorming images that go with the various metaphors. After you generate the list, you can apply various criteria (international acceptability, fit with current icons, complexity, etc.). If you don't have a copy, I would highly recommend William Horton's The Icon Book (which may be out of print) as the definitive guide on principles for icon design. The appendix to the book also has a list of icons that can be to simulate ideas. Chauncey On Dec 3, 2007 12:25 AM, PREETI SALUJA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Can you suggest some good links or any ideas for designing a suitable icon to denote freeze image and freeze screen? Kindly get back with any ideas that bouce ur head. Regards, Preeti *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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 -- -- www.flyingyogi.com -- *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
Let me just suggest that you may be complicating this unnecessarily by thinking of it as freeze It seems likely that what you want to do is analogous to either pausing or stopping a video display and there are recognized icons for both those. Katie On Dec 3, 2007 12:25 AM, PREETI SALUJA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Can you suggest some good links or any ideas for designing a suitable icon to denote freeze image and freeze screen? Kindly get back with any ideas that bouce ur head. Regards, Preeti -- -- Katie Albers User Experience Consulting Project Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Suitable icon for freeze
On Dec 3, 2007 8:07 AM, Ari Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, great recommendation! Horton's book is 13 or 14 yrs old but still valid today as it was when it came out. it's a fantastic resource for understanding the theory and practical considerations when designing icons and visual metaphors. I'm not such a big fan of the Horton book. Some design books age well, this one hasn't IMHO. I gave my copy away, and I do lots of icon design work. I recommend instead: Pictograms Icons Signs, Rayan Abdullah Roger Hubner Large and interesting book with examples from many artists and eras. A large emphasis on Olympics variants is understandable since that sort of started the trend. Handbook of Pictorial Symbols, Rudolf Modley Another good sourcebook with lots of pictorial examples If you expand out from these two books on Amazon you'll find lots of similar symbol sourcebooks to choose from. A more modern book on icon design is: Icon Design, Steve Caplin But it's still underwhelming and outdated, even though it was published in 2001. Great color printing though. Two web sources that I keep hoping will be better than they actually are, but in case you don't know about them: The Tango Icon Library http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ If you need to create Windows icons, IcoFX is my favorite of the free icon editors: http://icofx.xhost.ro/ I think there's a real opportunity for a crackerjack designer/writer to create the definitive book on icon and symbol design for software and hardware products. You'll sell at least one copy to me. Michael Micheletti *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ 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
