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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Are grayscale buttons with icons usable and effective?
The image here is
old gmail
new gmail, when no mail is selected
new gmail, when mail is selected
new delicious
To me, the buttons are unlabeled and tough to discover.
I don't believe the ...
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6answers
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Appropriate icon for: Activate [closed]
In an application were developing there is a window containing a table holding 2-5 rows.
A metaphor for the context could be that the table identifies a gearbox of a car and each row is a gear in the ...
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2answers
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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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4answers
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Where should the GUI light source come from?
I know that historically the light source on GUIs is in the upper left, casting a shadow on the bottom-right of buttons and the upper left of fields. Now, I see some places (like Apple) use a top ...
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0answers
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What would be an appropriate icon for “browse”? [closed]
What would be an appropriate icon for browsing different pieces of content by their category?
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Is there an established way of representing Single Sign On with an icon? [closed]
I'm wracking my brains trying to think of representing Single Sign On iconographically. Is there a common way this is done?
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What are two good unicode characters I can use to represent “Likes” and “Dislikes”? [closed]
I'll be displaying YouTube Like/Dislike ratings for videos in a text-based format, so I'm using unicode's vast icon codepages as a way to display various things (such as star ratings, using U+2605 ...
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1answer
305 views
Mouse usage pictograms
Is there a set of standard pictograms to explain using the mouse to navigate the interface? I would like to have icons for dragging an object, scrolling the mouse wheel above the object and similar. ...
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4answers
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How do you create or select an icon for a feature?
How do you work out what icon type or image you need for a feature?
There's been quite a lot of very small questions here in the form of "What is a good icon for feature X?".
Instead we should be ...
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11answers
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How to indicate the word “interesting” with an icon? [closed]
In the project I am currently working on everything is based around the essence of "interests". One of the most important and bold UI elements in this project, is a button that when pressed gives us ...
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5answers
214 views
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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3answers
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Detail disclosure button for non-iOS devices
On iOS devices, Apple uses a Detail disclosure button for additional details that are aside from the main list navigation. The image below is taken from the iOS HIG.
Another example of this can be ...
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Best image to convey 'Request Support'?
I'm working on a web application, one part of it has a table showing all the accounts a user has on a service, and allows them to click a button to request support with the account.
The icon is ...
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5answers
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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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3answers
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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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3answers
596 views
Universal blog icon? [closed]
How do I tell users I'm referring them to a blog? This is within a mobile app.
I realize it could be a Wordpress/Tumblr icon, but that's subject to the company's logo change and I was just wondering ...
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3answers
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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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3answers
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How to differentiate icons for *client* from *server* IT services (mail, web, filesharing and so on)
I need to design a UI that includes widgets to control a server computer, and a client computer.
This means I'll be doing similar pairs of icons for mail (mail program vs mail server), web (browser ...
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2answers
301 views
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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3answers
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Icons for clearing / canceling / deleting? [closed]
I have to design set of icons for 'clear search results', 'delete', 'close' and 'cancel' that due to specifics of the app might be sitting on the same toolbar side by side. Also the size is 16x16px ...
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3answers
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Icon for “title” and “subtitle” [closed]
I am creating a template for TV programme details. For each programme, I have a title and a subtitle. Instead of writing "Title" and "Subtitle" in full, I was thinking of using an icon.
What icon ...
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1answer
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Suggestions for icons for windows applications [closed]
I would appreciate if anybody could give me suggestion to create icons for Preview, Advisor, Settings, Reports, Report a Problem.
Please keep in mind all these icons are for a print application for ...
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4answers
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Icon for ascending-descending sort [closed]
I'm trying to come up with two icons to represent ascending-descending sort order which would allow the user to sort the members ('bars') of a chart/visualization.
The control will be a toggle ...
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3answers
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What are best icons to identify/distinguish TCP and UDP connections [closed]
I have a desktop application that serves as a smart, software-based router. Each of multiple nodes in the GUI can be either a UDP or TCP connection. We have the following status icons for the node:
...
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4answers
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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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6answers
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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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4answers
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Best resources to make great reusable UI elements (icons/buttons/etc)? [closed]
I'm new to "crafting UIs", but I've been doing User Experience / Interaction design for a while. Being unable to design my own graphics has been a serious handicap for my work as I'm dependent on ...
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4answers
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Where does one look for and what should one look for in hiring an icon designer? [closed]
I've got a small app I wrote, which is open source. I'd like to put a nice looking icon on the app; one that isn't going to be used by every other program on the face of the earth for being a stock ...
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8answers
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Icon for “factory reset” [closed]
I'm having a hard time finding an appropriate icon for "factory reset". At the moment, I have a "warning" icon, but I am looking for something less aggressive and more to the point.
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7answers
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What's an appropriate icon to represent an organisation? [closed]
Ok, so I need to use an icon to represent organisations in an otherwise boring list.
What comes to my mind directly is either using something financially related, such as a small stack of coins, or ...
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2answers
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Icon/Symbol to Represent “Done”? [closed]
I have a quiz-based application where users can leaf between questions and select answers. When they're done, there's a "done" button they click.
I don't really have polished graphics skills, so I ...
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2answers
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Icon for suspend and reinstate user for admin use [closed]
There is a list of user in a Gridview and there is a column for each row to suspend and reinstate a suspended user. What should be a good icon for this ?
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4answers
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Icon for number of “lives” remaining [closed]
I am writing a game for which the user has a set amount of "lives". Each time he makes a mistake, he loses a life. When the "lives" counter reaches 0, the game is over.
What would be an appropriate ...
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9answers
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Symbol for “Swipe Left” [closed]
I'm working on an app that displays a list of ten items (text items) on the screen at a time. If there are more than ten items, the user should be able to "swipe" from right to left to see the next ...
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2answers
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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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4answers
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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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3answers
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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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The psychology of everyday shapes
We know a lot about colours and how they affect people, but what do we know about shapes? When choosing icons or logos, how do the shapes in them affect their perception?
Does anyone know of any ...
2
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4answers
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What icon to use for archive and for restore? [closed]
In our web-app there is a message centre with a time-line of communications. We let the user move instances of these into what we are calling an archive. On each of the listed messages there appears a ...
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2answers
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What would be an intuitive icon for expectations? [closed]
Orders in my application can have expectations of the customer associated with the order. For example a customer may expect a certain dresscode, he'd expect a follow-up call and so on. The seller will ...
0
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2answers
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Need an icon to represent a “Certification Authority” [closed]
I'm (desperately) looking for an icon to represent a Certification Authority, like the ones that sign X.509 certificates we use in secure e-commerce.
I need something which is concrete (not an ...
0
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11answers
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Icon resembling “History” [closed]
I wrote a application for smart phones (it'll be opensource, so no money involved in case you mind) which displays historic events which happend today some years ago, in other words, you would call ...
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6answers
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Floppy disk icon for “Save” [closed]
It's funny that we still use floppy disks icon for save operation association while floppies have long been outdated, unused and many computer users nowadays don't even know how floppy disks actually ...
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Which icon in a native iPhone app's footer menu bar resembles 'sign-in'? [closed]
I'm looking for an icon that will live in an iPhone's footer menu bar that resembled 'sign-in'.
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4answers
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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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2answers
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I want to create an icon for increasing/reducing coversize [closed]
So I'm displaying a bunch of book covers from our library catalog (new additions), and I'd like an icon (well really two), that suggests changing the cover size. My other thought would be to have the ...
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2answers
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What is the standard icon for “smartphone” and "old-fashioned phone? [closed]
I want to use icons to represent whether you got an smartphone or just an old-fashioned phone in a web form.
What icons may be recognized by all people for this?
Ps. I can use a tooltip.
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1answer
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What is an icon or symbol that denotes 'automatic'? [closed]
What is an icon or symbol that denotes 'automatic' ?
More details:
Working on an application where there will be a list of bills, some with an actionable button inline that says 'Pay', and others are ...
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3answers
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Icons for username and password [closed]
I have login page with two input boxes, one for username and one for password. On the left of these input boxes, I want to put descriptive icons.
I think the profile of a bust, and a key, would be ...
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What would be a good non-religious icon to represent that a person has died? [closed]
I have an application that displays information about people in an organization and their accomplishments in the organization. It is non-religious in nature and members can be of any or no religion. ...
