Lately, InDesign & Bridge always trip me up, and invariably I click on the wrong one.
I constantly find myself having to think twice about what icon I am clicking on. And as Adobe’s line of products grows ever more extensive, I am having a hard time keeping all the little pictures straight. I don’t need my icons to be avant garde… i need them to instantly communicate. But that fact could be what makes them work! I just think these will work better at the outset and will work even better than the nature icons with continued usage.Īre they groundbreaking design? No… any of us could have come up with these. In these icons we will have quicker recognition not slower, with only two letters– it will improve with use just as the nature icons did. To the comment on “using letters means you stop and read, which takes time” (paraphrased) - Perceptual research tells us that we see shapes of words, not so much the letters. They only became functional (marginally, I would argue) over time. The first use of nature illustrations were only pretty and not functional. It would be interesting to see rounded corners for web apps so that folks that are both print and web designers will have one addtional clue besides color for recognition of icons.įinally, while icons should work at the outset of introduction, they are also what you make of them over time. They put typical apps for a person in one area at complementary positions on the color wheel–eg Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are very different colors. I think if only Adobe adopts this convention that it will work well. Add a few apps for a multipurpose user as well. More importantly, it would be helpful to see 3 or more mocked up docks representing what a graphic designer, a web designer, and a web technician (Coldfusion etc.) would typically see respectively.
EDITING ICONS IN ADOBE ROBOHELP 12 UPDATE
Give us something to salivate over!Ĭan author provide update with Key and sample dock? We could use a key as I could only decipher 11 of the icons. Or take the next few months to develop the icons further.
EDITING ICONS IN ADOBE ROBOHELP 12 SOFTWARE
I can only hope that the animations and visuals for the software launch sequences will be awe-inspiring. Adobe (the Designer) could have taken a few more design steps and still kept the overall concepts intact. However, I do agree that the new icons are boring and don’t have a creative edge. (And I’ve been using these software daily for years!) By contrast, I can easily find Dreamweaver and Flash. When I look at my row of icons on my Genie dock, I can never remember which is Photoshop and which is Illustrator until I look at the titles above them. I’m a believer that ‘less is more’ and clean design is effective design. Grouping software by media family within the same hue on the colour wheel is a smart move. The icons float on a colour wheel, to conyey them as colour swatches which will combine to form a kaleidescope of amazing works of art. I can see that Adobe is trying to say their software are “elements” or basic building blocks.
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