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The author may have overstated his case, but I hope the designers of GUI applications are listening: most of the icons on your menu bars mean nothing to me, so
by leephillips 6y ago
The author may have overstated his case, but I hope the designers of GUI applications are listening: most of the icons on your menu bars mean nothing to me, so your application is hard to use. Substitute words.
- yohannparis 6y agoMy biggest pet-peeve is the hamburger icon instead of the world 'Menu'. You are saving 10px... for what!?
- fuzzfactor 6y agoIn 1995 you needed to save 10px, they're just not as advanced any more.
- kangalioo 6y ago> For what?! I can think of several things: - more breath space in the UI - easier recognizability - less information overload (four character glyphs vs three plain lines) - consistency with other applications And it's not like the hamburger menu symbol is particularly obscure.
- flukus 6y agoIn defense of the hamburger menu, it's singular, nearly universal and well understood, I can deal with that just fine. This is very different from rows of icons in something like word where there's a huge array of functionality hidden behind obscure hieroglyphs.