Usability, Web Sites, and SEO in Kansas City » Icons http://www.usablewebb.com usablewebb.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Latest Facebook design & ambiguous icons http://www.usablewebb.com/2010/02/09/facebook-ambiguous-icons/ http://www.usablewebb.com/2010/02/09/facebook-ambiguous-icons/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:12:01 +0000 garrett http://usablewebb.com/?p=86 Continue reading →]]> Facebook's New Ambiguous Icons

The latest Facebook design has one major issue, the ambiguity of the icons for Friend Requests, Mail and Notifications.

Name the first thing you think of when you see each of the icons.

friend-request Friend Requests – Friends, People? What about the requests you get from people who really aren’t your friends?



mail Mail - Chat? Is Facebook saying mail is the new chat? We’ve all had email for at least ten years. Why not use the conventional envelope icon?



notifications Notifications – The world? The World Wide Web? Earth?

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