Research Catalog

Title

The icon book : visual symbols for computer systems and documentation / William Horton.

Author

Horton, William K. (William Kendall)

Publication

• New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [1994]
• ©1994.

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Details

Description

xiv, 417 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

User-interface icons are much more than on-screen decorations. Icons play an integral role in enhancing end-user productivity and an application's overall success. The text presents clear, step-by-step guidelines for designing instantly recognizable, fully understandable, and reliably memorable computer icons and icon sets for domestic and international use. Filled with heavily illustrated, research-based accounts on every aspect of the icon design process--from initial planning to refining and testing techniques--plus real-world insights for avoiding problems that can occur in translation to international markets. The book presents strategies and methods for encoding meaning in icons, developing iconic languages, consistent design style, using color and other design tools, and achieving management goals. It offers suggestions for representing complex "unpicturable" concepts and indicates when not to use icons. It is a valuable resource for user-interface designers, developers, computer-based trainers, graphic and multimedia designers, and technical writers.

Alternative Title

Visual symbols for computer systems and documentation

Subject

• Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
• Electronic data processing documentation
• Electronic data processing documentation
• Bildschirmsymbol
• Pictogrammen
• Grafische gebruikersinterfaces

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works
• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Icons in perspective -- How icons work -- Representing ideas graphically -- Showing relationships -- Designing an iconic language -- Drawing icons -- Color in icons -- Standard parts of the icon -- Icons for specific purposes -- Icons for international products -- Managing development -- Testing icons -- Editing icons -- Forms, formulas, and checklists -- Case study in icon design -- Icon starter set.

ISBN

• 047159900X
• 9780471599005
• 047102497X
• 9780471024972
• 0471599018
• 9780471599012

LCCN

93038303

OCLC

• ocm28962614
• 28962614
• SCSB-2024493

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library