Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Conceptually Incorrect Icons

[Chris Weiss]

First, I'm all for anything "new and improved", especially where "intuitive" is 
the
goal.  I hate trianing people.  However.....

Those look just like the old-old icons except even more bland, which was the 
biggest
user complaint about them.  Most email apps do use a different color for the 
arrow
on the forward icon, but other than that I don't see what's so wrong with the
current ones.  And I really don't see how your icons are in any way better than 
what
we have.  We have eye candy, and in the real world, eye candy sells.  You arrows
point the same way, just one has one more arrow, I fail to see how adding an 
arrow
makes it more intutitve, to me it looks more clutered.

On a side note, and a couple pet peeves of mine: BMP is not an internet standard
format.  PNG is prefered, GIF and JPG are also welcome.  You wrote a plain text
email, why on earth would you write an <a href> in it?  Let the properly written
email clients do their job in making a URL a clickable link.  As you wrote it 
the
"clickable" was ("http://web.njit.edu/~jxr7434/reply.bmp";>here).

Chris - just a guy that likes to voice his oppinions :)

John Rizzo (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>Hi guys,
>
>First I would like to congradulate you on a spectacular application!!! Good 
>work.
>
>Recently I have been taking a class in Human Computer Interaction.  
>Specifically we
>have been studying incorrect designs so my mind has been aware of this as I go
>through life.  Hence, I noticed that the reply and reply to all buttons appear 
>to
>be conceptually incorrect.  When you reply you are usually thinking of sending 
>a
>message back to the user and therefor the arrows would be pointing to the left.
>This is not necessarily a problem in and of itself however your forward button
>looks almost identically to the reply button.  The only difference being that 
>it is
>on the right side of the envelope.
>
>I would recommend redesigning the reply and reply to all icons so that they are
>more distinguishable.
>
>I have posted my redesigned image <a
>href="http://web.njit.edu/~jxr7434/reply.bmp";>here for reply</a> and <a
>href="http://web.njit.edu/~jxr7434/replytoall.bmp";>here for reply to all</a>
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>John
>
>PS. I am not subsribed to this list so if you want to reply to me then please 
>reply
>to address@hidden  Thank you.
>
>
>
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