Re: GUI design
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:39 am
Good morning everybody.
Trogluddite, you somehow planted a seed of thought in me that won't go away easily, knowing myself. What if it were possible to first of all define a requirement spec for a set of consistent icons for synths and then take a shot at doing it? I dug up some old Siemens, Bell Labs and TI books on symbol standards in flow and process control. I'll go through them today and perhaps something for starting a collaborative evaluation could result from it.
Question: What is perfectionism? I believe that beautiful simplicity cannot be but a result of perfectionist effort. I have read of writers who spent days thinking about the right words to describe a scenario or emotions. And I know from personal experience that placing three straight pencil lines on a piece of paper is no easy task.
So I do suspect that working on an icon set would be a job for many weeks if not months until they look good and consistent and are meaningful in the sense of self explaining or at least implication.
Best Regards
Phil
Trogluddite, you somehow planted a seed of thought in me that won't go away easily, knowing myself. What if it were possible to first of all define a requirement spec for a set of consistent icons for synths and then take a shot at doing it? I dug up some old Siemens, Bell Labs and TI books on symbol standards in flow and process control. I'll go through them today and perhaps something for starting a collaborative evaluation could result from it.
Question: What is perfectionism? I believe that beautiful simplicity cannot be but a result of perfectionist effort. I have read of writers who spent days thinking about the right words to describe a scenario or emotions. And I know from personal experience that placing three straight pencil lines on a piece of paper is no easy task.
So I do suspect that working on an icon set would be a job for many weeks if not months until they look good and consistent and are meaningful in the sense of self explaining or at least implication.
Best Regards
Phil