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Effecti ve Use of Icons & Images A UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday, December 3, 2009 Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney Register your team today at: http://www.uie.com/events/ virtual_seminars/

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Effective

Use of

Icons &

Images

A UIE Virtual

Seminar

Thursday,

December 3,

2009

Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney

Register your team today at: http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/

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make icons make sense

Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney

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What is this?

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What is this?

In a hardwarestore?

In the margin ofa user guide?

In a cartoon abovesomeone’s head?

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How do we define “cultural

regions”?

Political borders

Languages

Geographical regions

Religions

Gender

Age

EnglishFrançaisDeutschSuomi

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Right and wrong/

do and don’t

Refrain from using the checkmark and X in global documents

Although Scandinavians are aware of check =

correct and X = incorrect, they’re

often used to mean “remove” & “select”

respectively

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Bank

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Business

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Beware of falling cows

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Beware of hungry

cows

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Effective

Use of

Icons &

Images

A UIE Virtual

Seminar

Thursday,

December 3,

2009

Patrick Hofmann UX Designer • Sydney

Register your team today at: http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/