UWEB:Status/JavaWoman
- NotYet Voting "No"!
- I was considering adding my vote and then ran into this: there's no way to even vote 'No'? That would be my vote, so I'll attach it here.
- All this seems a noble exercise, but it can't have been dreamt up by anyone even remotely familiar with principles of graphical design: An icon should fit in with the general icon graphical syntax of a site. Just picking a "standard" icon for one or a few of the icons used on the site breaks that, and thus breaks the graphical syntax and consistency of icons within a site - and consequently also the usability of the site.
- Which leaves us to consider the "concepts" in the proposed icons:
- "chalk" is unknown as an icon and thus not good enough: it doesn't convey anything, really (just like the "radio" icon doesn't really convey anything to anyone not familiar with the history of RSS)
- "pencil" is already used widely, not just in wikis, but in all sorts of websites and application programs with the meaning "edit" so this is a known, and thus usable icon concept
- "WIKI" doesn't convey anything at all except "yes, that's where I am"; besides, as an icon it would be an "image of text" which is a bad idea in general.
- That leaves us with the "pencil" as a concept but it still needs to be designed within the graphical context of all of a site's icons.
- So, my vote is "No, no way!".
- Edit: Also, don't miss my critique of the polling process here, which was removed(!); you can now read about it on "my" talk page.
- -- JavaWoman Wikka Wiki's Standards Compliance Officer. :)
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