Re: Brainstorm for toolbar button

[Andrew Woodhouse <awoodhou -at- MPC-UK -dot- COM>]

> >How about: a button that puts the letters "de" above a
> >simple representation of a fault line in the ground?
> >
> <SNIP>
> >Man, this is a toughie. Anyone else got any bright ideas?
> >

> How about a picture of a vanilla ice cream cone, since using the defaults
> generally produces "plain vanilla" results?

> Win
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> Win Day
> Technical Writer/Editor
> Email: winday -at- idirect -dot- com

Err...there are a number of problems with this approach that I can see.

Firstly, will users really know (inuitively) that an ice-cream cone represents
defaults (it wouldn't be clear to me)!

Secondly, are you using coloured icons? If not, how do you show it's a vanilla
cone...<g>

To show default values, why not adopt a user-oriented approach...the user lets
the computers fill in the numbers/options, so show a computer with a
representation of this in the display - I would suggest just a couple of radio
buttons with squiggly lines representing text.

Just a thought.

Andrew Woodhouse

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