August 2018
Beginner
414 pages
3h 16m
English
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Chapter #28. Use Consistent Icons Across the Product
A UI packed with seemingly random, disparate icons is a usability disaster. I know what happened: you started using an icon set because it looked cool, then you realized it didn't have an icon for "upload" or "download".
The UI review meeting is later on today and you'd better get an icon in there quick! So, you use 
and 
instead. Except, they look totally different to the rest of the app and users have to spend those extra few seconds working out that, yes, they are actually part of the UI too. ...