Mea Culpa - I was wrong

[Charliep]

Ethan:

My entire point here is that there is no need to design these icons - the
work has already been done by Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc. If you believe the icons
designed by these companies are confusing, please consider that users are
already familiar with these icons. For new users who are already familiar
with these icons, changing them will be MORE confusing.

I would be happy to fire up Photoshop and produce icons, but would they
really be implemented? Where can I find the specifications for these icons?
But my icons are going to look a lot like the standard MSN icons with logos
instead of green people. If I make them will they be implemented?



Ethan Blanton-3 wrote:
> 
> Charliep spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> I do not buy the argument that Icons that include Protocol information
>> provide less information. It is very simple to design Protocol icons
>> which
>> allso include Available, Away, Busy for each different protocol, and
>> these
>> icons are very easy to understand. In fact, for a user who has been using
>> multiple IM clients, they are going to be more familiar with these
>> Protocol
>> specific icons.
> 
> If it is simple to design such icons, please submit them for our
> consideration.
> 
> Note that we have already tried and rejected small emblems overlaid on
> the protocol icons to represent state, as they were both confusing and
> hard to distinguish.  The state representation needs to be
> a) consistent across all protocols, b) large and easy to distinguish
> with respect to the size of the icon, and c) as intuitive as possible
> -- note that we do understand that "intuitive" is relative, here, and
> the current symbols (green dot, clock, paper) are a compromise.
> 
> Ethan
> 
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