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Subject:RE: Interesting visuals on control panel From:Jimmy Breck-McKye <jb527 -at- hotmail -dot- co -dot- uk> To:<jan -at- lvr -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:02:30 +0000
*My* concern is about visual clarity. Take a look at this example from a sewing machine - http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8940/haret.png - unclear, indistinct silhouettes. Give that grandma Wilkins with poor eyesight and the tortoise/hare have turned into a... blob and a... kinda... elongated blob.
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:04:13 -0600
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> From: jan -at- lvr -dot- com
> Subject: Interesting visuals on control panel
>
> Yesterday I happened to see the control panel on a cherry
> picker/aerial lift. The speed control had no text. Instead there were
> two images - a hare at the top and a tortoise at the bottom. In
> between was a bar that tapered from top to bottom.
>
> Since the tortoise in the fable wins the race, maybe the images send
> a subtle message to get going but take it slow?
>
> Jan
>
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