July 24, 2020
Notes from article about iconography
Notes from the articles written by Helena Zhang
We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport navigation, household appliance, and digital application. They are meant to be understood at a glance. Besides, icons try to not rely on a specific language or cultural difference.
But at the end of a day, how they manage to achieve this task? Briefly, they employ visual metaphors. These metaphors could be literal, such as an icon for alarm or battery status at your laptop. Sometimes, however, the metaphors are outdated, but we still can recognize their meaning by repeated use of these icons in the past. For example, a lot of icons use an image of a floppy disc to indicate a save action. For more abstract actions such as "shuffle" or "repeat" icons could communicate through the movement of the arrows. Finally, for some icons, we have lost the original meaning. A good example of this case is a command icon at a Mac keyboard.
We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport, navigation, household appliances, and digital applications.
Better to use the plural because you're referring to many times where we find icons.
Besides, icons try to not to rely on a specific language or cultural difreference.
When using an infinitive (to rely, to learn etc), try to keep the "to" and the action word together.
But at the end of a day, how do they manage to achieve this taskdo this?
Just simpler and clearer
BrieflyIn short, they employ visual metaphors.
July 25, 2020
Thank you:)
Notes from an article about iconography
Notes from the articles written by Helena Zhang
We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport navigation, household appliances, and digital applications.
They are meant to be understood at a glance.
BesidesGenerally, icons try to not rely on a specific language or cultural differencecontext.
Besides is not an appropriate transition here.
But at the end of athe day, how do they manage to achieve this task?
The saying is always "at the end of the day", a is never used, despite it seeming like it should make sense. Consider it a specific exception.
Briefly, they employ visual metaphors.
These metaphors could be literal, such as an icon for alarm or battery status at your laptop.
Sometimes, however, the metaphors are outdated, but we still can recognize their meaning by repeated use of these icons in the past.
For example, a lot of icons use an image of a floppy disc to indicate a save action.
For more abstract actions such as "shuffle" or "repeat" icons couldoften communicate through the movement of theorientation of arrows.
Finally, for some icons, we have lost the original meaning.
A good example of this case is athe command icon aton a Mac keyboard.
July 25, 2020
Thank you:)
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We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport navigation, household appliance, and digital application. We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport navigation, household appliances, and digital applications. We encounter icons everywhere in our daily life – transport, navigation, household appliances, and digital applications. Better to use the plural because you're referring to many times where we find icons. |
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They are meant to be understood at a glance. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Besides, icons try to not rely on a specific language or cultural difference.
Besides is not an appropriate transition here. Besides, icons try When using an infinitive (to rely, to learn etc), try to keep the "to" and the action word together. |
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But at the end of a day, how they manage to achieve this task? But at the end of The saying is always "at the end of the day", a is never used, despite it seeming like it should make sense. Consider it a specific exception. But at the end of a day, how do they manage to Just simpler and clearer |
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Briefly, they employ visual metaphors. This sentence has been marked as perfect!
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These metaphors could be literal, such as an icon for alarm or battery status at your laptop. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Sometimes, however, the metaphors are outdated, but we still can recognize their meaning by repeated use of these icons in the past. Sometimes |
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For example, a lot of icons use an image of a floppy disc to indicate a save action. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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For more abstract actions such as "shuffle" or "repeat" icons could communicate through the movement of the arrows. For more abstract actions such as "shuffle" or "repeat" icons |
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Finally, for some icons, we have lost the original meaning. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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A good example of this case is a command icon at a Mac keyboard. A good example of this case is |
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