Interaction of Symbols

User-Centered Icon Design

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Paul Michael Zender

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Interaction of Symbols is a book for everyone engaged with icon design. It presents a theory of how icons work: symbols in an icon interact to evoke meaning. From this theory flow design principles and practices based on evidence from Design and other disciplines such as Psychology, Perception and Cognition. The theory. principles, and practices impact how all symbol-based communications are conceived, designed, and applied The book focuses on icons that elicit a concept without any previous training or use of language. Findings from twenty years’ worth of empirical design research studies explore, illustrate, and support each principle, process, and recommendation. The book begins with a review of icon research from various fields before laying a conceptual foundation that grounds the theory of the book. After and elaborating on that theory are chapters that demonstrate how to Establish Contexts to Guide Comprehension, Glean Which Symbols to Draw, Learn How to Draw Understandable Symbols, Clarify Metaphor, and Use Icons to Decipher Icons in Icon Systems. Written and carefully designed for a broad audience, the book’s scholarly level is elevated while the presentation is approachable. Scholar or professional can skim, scan, or dig, it’s up to them. Heavily illustrated and supported with ample citations, it is not only a book for students and professionals within the field of communication design, but also for anyone who communicates with visual symbols, from healthcare professionals to software engineers, affecting all kinds of graphic communications from advertisements to assembly instructions.

Author Biography:

Mike Zender is Professor Emeritus of Design at the University of Cincinnati. He received his MFA in 1977 from Yale University, where he was the Carl Purrington Rollins Fellow. In 2004 he was a Medical Informatics Course Fellow at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. He founded and operated the design practice Zender + Associates, Inc. for thirty years. His work and that of his associates was published regularly and exhibited broadly. He is a past president of Cincinnati AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) and in 2009 was named a National Fellow of the AIGA for his contributions to design and design education. He has written two books on design, more than 25 journal articles, and in 2013 became editor of the 48 year-old communication design research journal Visible Language.

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September 9th, 2024

Author

Paul Michael Zender

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General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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100 Line drawings, black and white; 73 Halftones, black and white; 73 Illustrations, color; 100 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

325

ISBN-13

9781032614779

Product ID

38684453

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