Icon Design: Successful icon design is the accuracy of information transmission

Web page Production WEBJX article introduction: to Ali before the main work direction client terminal GUI design, here to chat a few words design icon idea, some views may be controversial, purely personal experience.

To Ali before the main work direction client terminal GUI design, here to chat a few words design icon idea, some views may be controversial, purely personal experience.

The core of the icon design is the accuracy of information transmission, is the information conveyed by the icon so that the target users can immediately understand, do not see the literal meaning of the icon can know the function, then this icon50% is successful, how to do this?

1. to understand the whole project well enough to understand the function given by this icon, the general direction of the message will not be wrong.

2. The analysis icon is a noun, a verb or an action name.

The icons of nouns are derived from the elements of life or well-known symbols, such as "music", you can take notes, you can imagine the common behavior of the user to take elements "speaker" "headset" "player", then their main characteristic is what "horn".

Personally think that the message can not be too much like, that does not matter icon, in small size, even slightly larger size is too much like the icon performance, the effect will be very bad.

The verb class can be interpreted in two ways, the orientation of the icon can be annotated with the arrow indicators, such as "Navigation" "Next" "return", another verb class, such as "Modify" "Search" "Settings" of this type of icon the best mind to restore the function point of the user to use the scene, Then map to the real life of the use of the scene.