From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <532123d5e931250550b7c6296ac3d1e5@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:47:40 +0000 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51ebb81a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I was merely countering the suggestion that icons are better than > words, where in my opinion words are far more powerful symbols than > images, even though the latter are more descriptives. Tis interesting that perceptually words are both symbols and text - in order to read at more than a couple of hundred words per min (roman script) you have to read words by pattern matching and much of that through peripheral vision. People rarely read the characters of a word unless its one they don't recognise. [aside: We could have a bizzar icon that pops up when you hover the mouse of Acme's Tag labels...] -Steve