Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Icon Poll - is this OK?

[Shawn T Carroll <shawnthomascarroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

What dimensions are you shooting for with the icon? Is there a set __ x __ pixels?

My wife is a professional graphic designer, and is called upon regularly to design or redesign icons.  If the goal is to figure out ways to have a "record" button not look like an indicator light or stop sign, I bet she would have some ideas.

If you def want to go with the "record" paradigm, I believe there are some pretty well-established norms for this in the icon world.

 

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From: Eric Wedel <Eric.Wedel@xxxxxxx>
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Icon Poll - is this OK?

Thanks for the graphics.

 

Funny, on the text-only poll I voted for record/stop, as this is intuitively correct.

[One can get in trouble for playing packets back into a live network. :-) ]

But it seems that the record button (small red dot on a large button) doesn't

transfer well to the screen, looking instead like an indicator light.

 

Also, the fourth example has no shape distinction at all, so people with red/green

color blindness would need to rely on tooltips / button placement.

 

 

From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laura Chappell
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:05 PM
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Icon Poll - is this OK?

 

Check out https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wsiconpoll.

 

See the pretty pictures? <grin>

 

I can send this to about 25,000 folks on our mailing lists and hit Twitter/Facebook.

 

Will provide feedback to the –dev list.

 

Laura

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