Can't stand when logos and icons fail to illustrate anything. Take for example this [1] Moving Brand's mock from a Mojo Networks redesign. The icons don't tell you a thing. Two circles for connectivity? 4 half circles for WLAN? Plain text would be less cluttered and less confusing. 1: http://www.movingbrands.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Movin...
I'm not a designer and I mostly fail to have a designer's eye for such things. But here the icons seem really clear: security - a stylized lock. connectivity - linked members of a chain, which are connected . WLAN - expanding circes of a radiowave login - a human head on an upper body All which exist as icons for decades in other UI. In this case there seems to be a design constraint of only using circles, semicircle…
Re: You Could Almost Do Anything Part II
#11That is fair, I probably sold the design short when I said they didn't illustrate anything. I guess my negative reaction comes the work I have to do as a user--it took some amount of time for me to look at the icons and discern their meaning. I didn't get that immediate "4 semi-circles = WLAN" recognition that most icons provide.