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> > It's a fact that it is easier and faster to comprehend images than words. > That's not at all a fact. It might be faster to recognize images than words Th
by pwg 13y ago
> > It's a fact that it is easier and faster to comprehend images than words.
> That's not at all a fact. It might be faster to recognize images than words
There is one point that almost all of these icons vs. text discussions omit. And that is an additional phrase at the end of the sentence:
"It is faster to recognize images than words, __after you have learned what the image means__".
- azinman2 13y agoExactly. And that's true until you forget because you're human, and then you have no idea what anything is. The assumption that "faster" is always the primary goal is what happens when CS people try to do UX. Its the dimension that should be optimized last, not first.