An image or pictogram used instead of or supplemental to textual information. Icon requests are off topic; please keep questions related to their use rather than asking what a good icon to represent a certain item/concept would be.
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Handling inactive notifications icons
With our app, there's currently a list of notification icons in the left side of the page. This are to alert you to events or things to do (e.g. you haven't contacted customer x for 30 days, you have ...
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Most intuitive icon to represent “me” or “myself” [closed]
For example, in a shopping cart, I may buy this purchase for myself ("me" / "myself" icon), as opposed to gifting it to someone else (box with bow-tie icon). What is the ideal icon to represent ME?
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How would you represent “easy”?
I'm working on an app that requires someone to rate the how they did at recalling an item (to which they are shown the correct answer before they rate the item). The three options are: wrong, right, ...
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An icon to represent all icons [closed]
I would like to know if there is a universal approved Icon to represent all Icons.
I have a folder that contains all of my custom designed icons.
I would like to design and create a custom Icon, to ...
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would you find it confusing if a megaphone icon was used to represent a phone call? [closed]
Bit of an odd question, and I can't go into all the circumstances why I'm asking this,
but anyway: would you find it confusing if a megaphone icon was used instead of a cellphone or telephone icon to ...
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Would you consider this a button? [closed]
I am working on a web interface and I want to emphasize a portion of it and make it attractive for people to click on it, which will show additional content (with a 3d css flip animation).
The first ...
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Icon to “Reset camera view” [closed]
Imagine you work in some 3D application where you can control the camera and view data graphs from different points of view, controlling camera position and direction. Sometimes you might get lost in ...
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Use UAC Shield icon to indicate (non-Windows) elevation will be required?
i am working on financial software where there are many times where a "supervisor" is required to authorize that the user can continue, e.g.:
user wants to void a funds transfer
user has a variance ...
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Generation dependent icon set?
When I started my computing carrer in the 1980s the tool we used were very different from those used today. At first there was no possability to even save ones work. You had to write down your code on ...
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Good metaphor for time estimation vs. spent time
Representing time generally is easy with a clock, an hourglass etc. But how would you differentiate between a time estimation and the actual time spent on a task? Do you know of any example where ...
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Battery - what percentage range to use for each color?
I need to display battery with 3 colors: green, orange (or yellow?) and red.
This device's battery (like iPad, iPhone etc..) with a battery life of up to two days.
What percentage range to use for ...
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Can icons improve readability on a navigation?
Our app has many tools and we have a navigation of about 10 tabs. Tabs can be re-arranged and this forces the user to find them by reading the label. Would icons make it more usable?
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Iconography for Beginning and End points? [closed]
I'd like to create icons for the endpoints of a process, but I'm not sure what to use.
Going with "A" and "B" comes to mind as that's a familiar reference (e.g. "the shortest distance from A to B") ...
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Good icon for “suggestion” [closed]
I have a feature which, given the information entered so far, suggests a more complete version of what the user is entering. I'm thinking that when I have something I can suggest, I will show an icon ...
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Communicating a three stage grade of alert
In our web application there's a view where we display the stress on a hardware component.
This will be displayed with a percentage value in different colour codes combined with an icon where 100% ...
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Best icon to represent transparency? [closed]
What would be the best image/icon to represent transparency?
It should be as compact as possible and fit in a 13x11 area.
I see that I should add more information.
I need this image/icon to be ...
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What icon could be used to mean 'notifications'? [closed]
As part of a web-based application, we have a toolbar at the top of the page. The toolbar contains buttons that consist of small (30x30) icons with a single word underneath (for example, a search ...
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What unicode symbol should I use for EDIT?
I'm trying to keep a very light payload on a wordpress plugin I'm writing.
Users will be able to:
add - +
refresh - ⟳
edit
I'm thinking of using the pencil glyph: ✎, but I'm not sure about it. ...
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Rearranging icons by most recently used
I am looking for some studies that examine how users perceive controls (e.g. navigational icons) that are rearranged based on most recently used. Also it would be interesting to see how rearranging ...
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I want to let the user toggle a column heading to sort a grid by a date field. How can I make ASC/DSC intuitive?
I want to let the user toggle a column heading to sort a grid by a date field.
How can I make the ascending/descending dichotomy intuitive?
EDIT: I was looking for date-column specific solutions.
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An icon indicating something has changed or been edited? [closed]
Any suggestions besides the obvious pencil or highlighting with colours? I am stumped, this was trickier than I thought. It is for a search function/filter if that helps but a universal symbol would ...
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Icon/asset catalog for development
A friend of mine currently is going through process of face-lifting existing application and it's nightmare when it comes to icons for buttons.
For example there are five different icons for ...
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How to indicate a user is a full member or just a regular member?
I'm looking for some nice ways to visualize whether a user is a full member or a regular member. Assume a Facebook-style website with full membership option.
The profiles will be displayed as blocks ...
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User navigation icons or text based
I am working on a web based hosted CRM personal project which I will release to public ones it is done. My goal is to create a CRM with absolutely zero to none learning or training requirement. To do ...
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Icon based buttons or Color based buttons which is more UI attractive and Friendly
I am seeing websites increasingly switching to color based buttons and interaction elements rather than icon based is this a trend or do they have reasons behind the switch? For example see the ...
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'Liking' Sensitive Events on Social Media: Contextual Icons and Words for Approval/Agreement
Prompted by recent events. The use of a Like icon (whether thumbs up or otherwise) is fine on social media for lots of things, but certain subjects and events should not be "liked" or use such a ...
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What indicates Zoom uniquely?
While reading a slideshow on How People Really Use the iPhone. It seemed a lot of users are confused when looking for a "zoom" icon; finding the magnifying glass to mean "search" and the plus sign to ...
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Icons, their Cognitive Effect and Scientific References
As part of may daily intake of UX vitamins, I was questioning myself the following. We use pretty much icons in our everday activities. We use them on computers or in cereal boxes, and we expect them ...
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What Is the Best Approach To Minimalist Buttons (Icons)?
My web app, like most, is trying to utilize as much space as possible by trying to use an icon as a button to perform specific tasks. I have quite a few that would make for a pretty obscure button, ...
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How to explain best that there is more to a headline? (Icon, Text, etc)
We want to show "news headlines" within a google map (the news where it happend).
The news will show up in speech bubbles. Only the headline will be shown first. If a user want to read more, he has ...
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Icon for collapsing/expanding left side panel on tablet [closed]
I'm struggling to find a good icon to represent to users that while reading an article or something similar, they can click a small icon to reveal a left side panel to show additional options.
I've ...
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How to Find the Best Icon to Represent a Concept?
I am developing a visual programming language, and after reading this paper it looks as if icons are a very good solution to improve the language and increase understanding. But since I am a ...
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What is the correct usage for toggling triangle icons (down/up) on a click-to-reveal link?
I'm working on a UI where users can toggle a button to show or hide a div. On the 1st click, the div appears below the button with a slide-down effect. On 2nd click, the div slides up to hide.
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Symbol for additional content present in a passive display
I have a digital signage application in which a portion/row can show a max of 3 blocks of information at a time. The number of total blocks vary from 2 to 6, in which 90% will only contain 2 or 3. On ...
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Opens in a new window icon placement
When using an icon to represent a link I believe the standard convention is [icon] [Link].
A colleague has raised the point that for links that open in a new window, the icon should appear after the ...
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Appropriate icon for score [closed]
I'm designing a quizz with jQuery. It has 4 counters: "correct answer", "wrong answer", "timer" and "score". Each counter has a little icon describing the counter.
I have found good jQuery UI icons ...
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appropriate international icon for “deals” [closed]
We (like so many other startups) are developing an iPhone app that contains a "local deals" tab. (Discounts on meals at restaurants, etc.) I am trying to figure out what would be the best icon to use ...
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What should be ideal date on calendar icon?
I am designing a calendar icon for an app, I am putting a random date right now on it, what should be ideal date that I should put. Is there any usability research done on the same?
I know the best ...
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Icon for “More”, like more results [closed]
I need an intuitive icon which represents "more" ITEMS (or "more items like this") (or other "similar" items to this item). I have space constraints on the screen, so I can't exactly use a label.
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What term or icon to use for marking an item for quick access later on? [closed]
If there is an item (web-link or document or image) that you use very frequently or find very useful, should you 'star' it (as in Gmail) or 'favorite' it? Are 'marking as starred', 'liking' and ...
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What's a good icon for a compilation process? [closed]
I'm building a tool that wraps around an automated compilation and testing process; the user selects one or multiple versions they want to test and instructs the software to either start the process ...
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Votes (star rating) usage - stars or smiles?
I need to make a voting field for my feedback form.
I make an assumption then when you use stars images user easily will use lower ratings, and when you use smiles(faces) with :) for good vote(5) and ...
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Positive connotation Icon for number of errors
We have a game where we need to count number of errors as performance criteria. We are looking for a way to positively note the scores. One idea was to make an association to golfing by naming it ...
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Why does the upload icon have a down arrow on cPanel?
As you can see on the image below (i am on a mobile device) the upload icon has a down arrow.
Shouldn't the icon have an up arrow instead meaning that the file is going up instead of down?
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Is a Spinner right for this UI?
On Android, I want to create a drop-down menu of buttons activated on touch on the right of the screen, with a 'close' button to return to original closed state. Is a Spinner the appropriate UI ...
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What icon for advanced options? [closed]
I am working on a public transit app for Android. Look at the screenshot - the button with a wrench icon opens advanced options. In advanced options you can set which transport mode to use (bus, tram, ...
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Is it better to use generic icons for 3rd party branded software or system specific icons?
I am developing a program that saves Word documents.
We develop on Mac OSX (in a Virtual Machine) and as such the Word Icon we have used is the Mac-specific word icon (which makes no sense when ...
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Something not quite right with my design [closed]
There's something not quite right here, and I'm not sure what.
Should "Blog" (the title of the page) be bigger? If so, why? It seems too small, yet it's not incredibly important either. Additionally, ...
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Display temporary action in table
I have a table with a bunch of data in it that needs to be reviewed by a manager. The requirement is when they review a line of data (ie, a customer order), they can click something to indicate ...
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Does having different functionality for the same button on different screen cause a usability issue?
Within two different screens of a product I'm designing I would like to use an icon for a secondary action. In both screens using an icon with an X in it seems the most logical choice, although the ...
