One more version.
After reading all of the coments and testing several of the ideas in them, I ended up going for the "Delorean" time gauge.... with a twist....
Design done...
Hello again, so I believe I am 90% done with the base style direction and main UI components for O², and am currently struggling with my not so bright idea of dinamic QML colour pallets. Still overall I'm happy with the general visual direction of the UI style, it's IMO clearly derivative of Oxygen but today. Now having done 90% of the design and doing the serious work I know that the solemn work that will take far far more time is upon me and us.. So in the next week's I will be mostly focussing on the qml implementation that as already started and implementing a kinda Oxygen-demo UI showcase. After that I have to do something even more difficult... That is to find a a icon style that does the same that the UI style above did.. bring to today oxygen of yesterday. And fix any of its issues...
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The whole idea beyond an icon is that it should be immediately clear what it means. That's the idea beyond traffic signs as well.
They are and have to be extremely consistent to be immediately understandable. They don't have complex patterns and/or gradients etc.
Why is it not possible to design icons the same intentions in mind as traffic signs?
Eu gosto dos teus icons porque são visualmente agradáveis mas não tenho a certeza se são práticos.
Btw not all trafic signs are easy to understand.
Hence from that my Nickname ;-)
Who says the backwards americans are always right? And what about ISO Standard?
Year / Month /day is the proper way, you know!
/j
like this (but with vault)
http://www.downpourproductions.com/img/vault/vault_banner.jpg
you could even use a round calender for the numbers in the combination
You should work on the door hinge
um abraço forte
...but I too guess a hourglass one would look even better - besides having no problems with date formats. :-D
Personally, I think using the "clock lock" was a pretty nice idea, but oh well.
a small icon of it will probably suck.
Why don't you try keeping things as simple as possible?
http://blog.qnect.net/wp-content/thevault.jpg
Which better lends itself to having a clock face superimposed.
Ps: sorry my bad english
I'm against a sand clock. I think it will look out of place.
While the numeric date is displayed different across the globe, the way the author layout it (with the titles above) is more than self explanatory IMHO.