RSS, OPML, Tag, Bookmark Icons
We have a “standard” RSS icon and a similar working OPML icon, but I’d like to work with the graphics community on creating a “standard” Tag icon and a “standard” Bookmark icon - in a similar square style. These icons would tie into the functionality of my first two WP plugin ideas - where the user would only need to display one icon, and when the visitor hovers over it, would receive a nice callout to selected services. We could eliminate a massive amount of confusion and save page space at the same time. I think it’s time we started thinking about this - but I’m not a graphic designer. Help?
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9 Comments
Shawn Oster
August 14th, 2006
at 12:49pm
I like the idea of different icons but I’m not sure about the “callout” of services. It sounds great from a geeky perspective but your average web user wouldn’t get it. Even if you add a link that said, “Hover Over Me for a List of Servces” most people would ignore it. I know I would, even as a developer. I don’t consider the ability to bookmark a page a service, nor do I see something like tagging as a service. As a developer a “Service” has a very concrete meaning to me. Plus quite a few studies have shown that an “icon only” approach rarely does more help than good. Even my wife who *knows* what the print icon looks like still goes up to the menu and clicks File | Print.
I just can’t imagine/see/think of a way to group all those actions/providers together in a way that my mother/CEO/CSR wouldn’t just ignore.
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November 17th, 2006
at 9:39am
[...] I also started a conversation a few days ago about a generic “share this” icon, an idea which folks seem to like but one that hasn’t gotten a lot of art contributions yet. Chris Pirillo let me know that he wrote of a similar desire a few months back. Chris’s description of an icon in the same general vein as the feed icon is more what I had in mind than some of the contributions I’ve seen so far. Let’s see some creativity! [...]
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December 4th, 2006
at 3:59pm
[...] It’s in the same vein as the feed icon as Chris discussed. [...]
Kevin Andersson
December 9th, 2006
at 3:20am
Heya.
I was looking for the exact same thing today, and didn’t have any luck. I actually tripped over your website while searching :)
Bu anyways - i figured i could make my own icon, now that nobody else had done it yet. You’re welcome to download it at:
http://kevinandersson.dk/b2evolution/index.php?blog=9&title=bookmark_universelt_ikon&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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December 9th, 2006
at 1:20pm
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Iggy Uncensored
April 9th, 2007
at 10:31pm
Even if your not going you should pay attention to this RSS feed…
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May 5th, 2007
at 12:40pm
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