Approach to designing easy-to-understand icons

The paper describes an approach to designing icons whose functional meanings are easy for users to understand. It is first suggested that the design process is separated into two phases: (1) selection of objects to be used for icons; (2) determination of how to draw the selected objects. The authors focus on the first phase and discuss a method for selecting objects that strongly convey the desired functional meanings. A simple experiment for selecting appropriate objects is then described.<
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