Timeline for Down arrow and up arrow status
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| May 26, 2016 at 16:44 | comment | added | Devin | FWIW, I like these icons, I use them a lot since they come with Material Design Font (design.google.com/icons) and IMHO they transmit the idea of a trend (whether ascending or descending) better than arrows which have ambiguous meaning | |
| May 26, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | maxathousand | @GinovandeStaaij In the mockup provided with OP's post, there is a category of "Goods Issues" with a down arrow. I'm sure no one would think a decrease in issues is a bad thing, so it is pretty well understood that decrease is good. The question was regarding how to convey that this is both good and a decrease with icons. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 12:48 | comment | added | Gino van de Staaij | Ah, I see what you mean. But why would OP need to fill the positive or negative connotation in? If you do not assign any meaning to the icon (refrain from colors, for example) isn't it up to the particular user to interpret that in the way that suits them best? | |
| May 26, 2016 at 10:21 | comment | added | Roux Martin | The OP is asking how to add the positive and negative layer to the icons - That's why I'm confused by your 2 icons - logically we need 4: Positive Up, Positive Down, Negative Up, and Negative Down. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 9:10 | comment | added | Gino van de Staaij | @andrew: The same as in your example: right+up=increment and right+down=decrement. Positive and negative are the qualities that are up to the interpretation of the stakeholder. So don't use any specific color, and especially no 'priming' colors such as red or green (priming meaning: red -> negative, green -> positive). | |
| May 26, 2016 at 9:01 | comment | added | Roux Martin | I'm not sure how those might be used to show negative increments versus positive increments or negative decrements versus positive decrements. Could you expand your answer? | |
| May 26, 2016 at 8:31 | history | answered | Gino van de Staaij | CC BY-SA 3.0 |