PCM and LFE icons are very good. The more you iterated, the more you improved them. Congratulations
Anonymous said…
Why the numbers under the PCM icon?
I think they don't add any useful information for users.
Anonymous said…
I really like the PCM and LFE icon. And please do not remove the bitstream under the wave. I really liked the idea with the wave that is converted to a bitstream.
Anonymous said…
If the sub-woofer icon was with other surround siblings, then I think the wave is unnecessary. Otherwise you are left with trying to represent the sound produced, such as an earthquake.
For the inputs a picture of a physical object, is it has one. The PCM might have a more square wave to show it is digital, or representation of the laser light from an optical digital audio cable.
Anonymous said…
Sorry, I meant to add, I like the icons.
I notice that my AV amp has virtually no icons, but icons make it faster to recognize or differentiate something than reading the word(s).
There is a kind of separation: master volume control, output adjustments (left-right balance, front-back balance, treble and bass tone controls, analogue/digital/Bluetooth output), input levels (mic, aux, CD, modem/phone, PC speaker/bleep, video/TV/Radio, Midi synth...)
Anonymous said…
The PCM looks more like SPDIF which provides digital (optical) output...
Hopefully in the next few days I should have a Usability test that I have been working on with Björn Balazs from apliki.de on the K3B icons in that study I will pose the same question I'm about to pose now. And hopefully a few more options, that will come from the feedback of this post. So the question is...... "Data cd" 1 or 2?.... 1 2 Don't think to hard, just fire the first thing that pops in your mind, that is the best way to judge a icon IMO..also if you have an better idea please share...I will try to include it in the usability test. P.S Ofcourse the numbers will have to be redone for each size and the document as well... Its one source file for each icon. meaning this one = 14 files 7 png's and 7 svgz's.
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I think they don't add any useful information for users.
Otherwise you are left with trying to represent the sound produced, such as an earthquake.
For the inputs a picture of a physical object, is it has one. The PCM might have a more square wave to show it is digital, or representation of the laser light from an optical digital audio cable.
I notice that my AV amp has virtually no icons, but icons make it faster to recognize or differentiate something than reading the word(s).
There is a kind of separation: master volume control, output adjustments (left-right balance, front-back balance, treble and bass tone controls, analogue/digital/Bluetooth output), input levels (mic, aux, CD, modem/phone, PC speaker/bleep, video/TV/Radio, Midi synth...)