Timeline for Changing icons or graphics based on user geographic location/language?
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| Jan 14, 2016 at 15:12 | vote | accept | benteh | ||
| Jan 13, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | benteh | ..another interesting thing is the flat hand facing you. In "our" part of the world it means stop, in the middle east and africa it is often a symbol for a blessing.. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 15:16 | comment | added | benteh | :D yes, I am aware of Pajero; it is hysterical. There are a lot of these things; I do not think the anglo-american world realises how often they do it. Yes, I agree on finding the best icons possible, but I also think that that turns us towards a increasingly pictorially poorer society, and: 1. you can teach people the meaning of something fairly easily so everything does not have to be instantly recognisable. 2. Some icons are simply too culturally dependant. We are training the world to be anglo-american-centric, and I would like a little more creativity. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 14:53 | comment | added | Yisela | Although I agree with Zach's point of trying to use universal icons, this not always works. And I'm not even considering aesthetic preferences depending on the country (remember "Why does Japanese design look so strange?"). There are actually some funny anecdotes with car names meaning different things in different places, and it happens way more than one would expect (I chuckle every time I see a Mitsubishi Pajero. I will let google clarify why). | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | benteh | Splendid. You point out some of my thoughts exactly. The owl for example are, in my part of the world, both wise and a symbol of death. I feel the webdev world is way way to anglo-american. There are good icons, but aiming for universals.. perhaps we should not always do that. And anyway, my question was more of a theoretical curiosity. I have thought about the thumbs-up icon, and likewise icons of feet would be problematic. Also funny; in cultures where one reads from right to left, some imagery would be idiotic. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 13:53 | history | edited | Yisela | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 13, 2016 at 13:45 | history | answered | Yisela | CC BY-SA 3.0 |