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| Dec 12, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | user67695 | Yeah, my idea was that if we want to have international symbols (icons) then we have to create some, and they will not be obvious, intuitive, mnemonic, or anything else, they will just be squiggles that 'mean' something particular. So, since Chinese is so widely known, I think we should simply adopt that as the writing system for all languages and move on. Then the icons of software would, obviously, just be Chinese symbols. Done. It is not worth wasting any more thought-power on, is it? It will happen eventually. The "functional illiteracy" that you mention is normal, expected. | |
| Dec 10, 2016 at 18:21 | comment | added | jamesqf | @no comprende: No thank you. Japanese was bad enough. I can't imagine the frustration of having to learn both a tonal language and ideographic writing system. | |
| Dec 9, 2016 at 19:46 | comment | added | user67695 | learn Chinese?? | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 5:29 | comment | added | user | @nekomatic Are you thinking of toolbars? The toolbars were never intended to be the primary or only user interface; they were intended to make commonly used commands quicker to access for experienced users. Every reasonably large piece of software tends to have power user functionality somewhere in its UI, which isn't required to use the software but offers time-saving features for the people who know about it when they have a use case that involves that functionality. It's quicker to click the "save" toolbar button (or press Ctrl+S) than to use File->Save, but they didn't remove the menu. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 18:06 | history | edited | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | nekomatic | A motto of the original Mac design team was A word is worth a thousand pictures - which is why Mac menu titles and menu entries are words not icons, and is what the Microsoft Office designers forgot in the early 1990's and took a while to remember again. I think you need to bring evidence for 'increase in functional illiteracy' though? | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 14:29 | comment | added | user24582 | Also, GUIs and their icons get redesigned. I found out that I was relying mostly on the color of the icons when Lotus Notes switched to a black/white design. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 5:37 | history | answered | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |