There's nothing obvious about M022 – Use barrier cream . If I saw that, I'd assume it means brush your teeth with toothpaste, no toothbrush needed.
ISO Warning Signs
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#22Some of them are terrible. "Release the ropes" (lifeboat) for eaxmple, as well as others, only mean something if you already know what they mean. A warning sign should be instinctive to most of the population.
It's as pointless as when you see a "danger" sign with the word "danger" underneath to explain what the sign means :-)
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#23Will the phone symbol need to be updated since phones haven't looked like that in a long time? It could be tough to explain the "emergency phone" one, for example, to a kid.
Peppa still uses an old phone https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wi... I couldn't find the exact frame in the video, but there are a few where she or a friend is using a phone like that, and also a few with a wireless phone.
Peppa's most iconic use of a telephone is clearly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jil0WCh_UoQ
Peppa uses a cordless phone (but not "mobile", it uses a short range transceiver so that you can wander around your home with it) and her mother calls the Sheep household which has a more traditional phone like the pictographs.
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#24Will the phone symbol need to be updated since phones haven't looked like that in a long time? It could be tough to explain the "emergency phone" one, for example, to a kid.
you figure, kids still know what a floppy disk represents despite the tech being obsolete for 20 years now. skeuomorphism means designs like phone handsets retain some informational value long after the actual, original use is gone.
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#25Some of them are terrible. "Release the ropes" (lifeboat) for eaxmple, as well as others, only mean something if you already know what they mean. A warning sign should be instinctive to most of the population. It's as pointless as when you see a "danger" sign with the word "danger" underneath to explain what the sign means :-)
You have to consider that these are placed next to the thing they're showing. They're obviously a lot harder to understand when you look at them detached from the thing.
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#26I always love how the explosion warning sign looks like something out of a dramatic, beautiful comic panel.
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#27We're going to be seeing a lot more of W037 (Warning: injury from remote controlled or automatic vehicles) soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010#/media/File:ISO_7010_...
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#28Will the phone symbol need to be updated since phones haven't looked like that in a long time? It could be tough to explain the "emergency phone" one, for example, to a kid.
It's still the symbol for the phone app, so even if it doesn't make sense to a young person, they likely still understand it as the phone symbol.
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#29What is the best way to print these? An inkjet and some glossy paper? How does one preserve them when exposed to the sun, rain, ice and snow? Does someone yet make a consumer level printer that can print onto vinyl stickers?
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#30Some of them are terrible. "Release the ropes" (lifeboat) for eaxmple, as well as others, only mean something if you already know what they mean. A warning sign should be instinctive to most of the population. It's as pointless as when you see a "danger" sign with the word "danger" underneath to explain what the sign means :-)
> A warning sign should be instinctive to most of the population.
Isn't it good to also have standarized signs for warnings that are meaningful for a smaller subset of the population (e.g. "rapid movement of workpiece in press brake machine")? It's not like you're going to see this sign on the street anyway. And if you happen to see the sign somewhere and don't understand it, at least you understand that it's a warning sign and know that you should ask someone what it means.