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Document and Standardize Visual Interface Elements Across Platforms...
At present, various software development guidelines offer little or no
instruction for creating an artistically integrated user environment.
Instead, they rely on the built-in elements of the interface and
advise programmers: `hire a professional artist to design your
graphical features.' Research on the way people process visual
information is conducted in multiple fields, including Art, Medicine,
and Psychology. Someone needs to compile this knowledge into
guidelines that can be used by working artists and programmers
designing GUI software for every platform. Imagine the trouble
developers must face today when they attempt to port a program from
one operating system to another. Because each operating system is
based on entirely different graphical standards, there is little
common ground and designers are forced to either compromise their
original program or spend long hours recreating the features of one
operating system in another. Consider the benefits for users and
programmers alike if we could have standardized icons across
GUI's...
Figure 4:
Variations on the international 'I' for Information Icon
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