Comment Comment by rrherr The title is misleading. The message is really:Stop using unlabeled icons in data tables.It says, "Norman Nielson argues that text + icon has the highest cognitive recall and lowest error rate"Here's what the Nielsen Norman Group says about Icon Usability: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/icon-usability/The conclusion: "Always include a visible text label. As Bruce Tognazzini once said, 'a word is worth a thousand pictures.'"Here's the quote in context: https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html"In 1985, after a year of finding that pretty but unlabeled icons confused customers, the Apple human interface group took on the motto 'A word is worth a thousand pictures.' This still holds true." parent rrherr 9 months ago
Stop using unlabeled icons in data tables.
It says, "Norman Nielson argues that text + icon has the highest cognitive recall and lowest error rate"
Here's what the Nielsen Norman Group says about Icon Usability: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/icon-usability/
The conclusion: "Always include a visible text label. As Bruce Tognazzini once said, 'a word is worth a thousand pictures.'"
Here's the quote in context: https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
"In 1985, after a year of finding that pretty but unlabeled icons confused customers, the Apple human interface group took on the motto 'A word is worth a thousand pictures.' This still holds true."