Alain Vaillancourt — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:08 GMT

It seems to me the icons you’re talking about (within applications) are more like in-building signs (there are tons of them in the field of facilities management and hundreds in the domain of airport and train station signs alone) while icons used on Web pages are those that have a lot in common with traffic signs.

By the way, I’m always struck or even shocked at how little icons or general shapes and colors are used on traffic signs in US compared to my home province. When I cross the border in the US I find I am snowed under signs with too much verbiage in them. My mind has to give full attention to reading all that text, making it dangerous for driving and creating missed exits or the opposite.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Alain Vaillancourt