1. Craig Corbett

2. What is an icon?
A simple picture.
A symbol.

3. What is special about an icon?
It represents something.
It only uses pictures.
It does not have any words.

4. Who are icons for?
Everybody.
They must be easy to understand.
You don’t need to read them.
People who speak different
languages can understand them.

5. Example Icons
What does it mean?
Play or Start
Record
Stop

6. Example Icon
What could it mean?
A message.
A email.
A letter.
Put it on a box and it might mean
Letters only.
Envelopes.

7. Example Icons
What does it mean?
The time of day.
Clocks.
A timer.
Wait.
Busy.

8. Example Icon
What could it mean?
Go forward.
Up.
Put it on a box and it might mean
“This Way Up”.

9. Does it matter where icons are
used?
 Yes it does.
 If you were to see an icon on a box it will have a
different meaning to an icon on your mobile
phone.
 A envelope on your mobile might mean a text
message or email.
 A envelope on a post box might mean “letters
only”.
 A envelope on a box might mean that the box
contains envelopes.

10. Let’s sum up icons
 Icons can sometimes look like the
object or thing that they represent.
 They have pictures, not words, so that
everybody can understand what they
mean.
 They must be easy to understand.
 You can change their meaning by using
them for different things.