People often make the mistake of thinking text and icons are two ways of doing the same thing Labels are good at telling you what things are, but finding speci

People often make the mistake of thinking text and icons are two ways of doing the same thing Labels are good at telling you what things are, but finding specific frequently performed actions in a list of text that all look similar will yield frustration Icons (and especially icons with colour, or icons plus colour) are good at allowing you to quickly find something you're already looking for, but expecting icons to perform the job of labels to provide initial information will yield confusion