The study of signs and their meaning, generally encompassing communication as well as the meaning of symbols such as words or icons.
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
