Post of the day, More on the timevault icon.
Im still working on the time voult icon I posted 2 days ago but im not realy all that happy with the time aspect of it...
What do you think?
What do you think?
I have a question!
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.
Comments
Something with a watch and a valve attached to it.
Parabéns! :)
The vault looks really good though!
Maybe it will be easier for users to identify the application that way!
Best,
LuÃs
You are trying to express a big UNDO or like browser history or captain's log. Perhaps have a translucent cut out in the safe showing the saved dated contents. Or a diagonal split icon [\) vault one side and old/frozen files or time/date element on the other.
@Dread Knight a more realistic prespective makes it bad as an icon there are certain angles one should avoid wen making iconslike close to vercical or horizontal ones.
A valve as a certain low tech/retro feling to it that im not sure is apropriate for this ...
@juan font sand waches are incredibly hard to make couse of the glass reflexions and the sand texture :(.
Maybe it would be best to combine both the handle and the clock. The clock could be centered on the safe and (visually) act as both the handle/opener metaphor and the clock metaphor.
Of the two, Time and Vault, am I wrong in thinking that time is the more important?
The, "I know what that is at a glance.", component suffers a bit with the current, very attractive, timevault icon.
clock placement about the same as with your korgac icon ...
Decrease depth of the safe and replacing the timer (clock) with something that look like a bicycle codelock , but with month date time instead of 0-9 digits.
Thinking month date time displayed as measuring tape (as vertical wheels) with colored segments (sections) on each tape(wheel).The wheels "cutting through the safe" thus reentering under the safe.
Maybe the year could be displayed as a good old counter to the left of the wheels...
http://wapedia.mobi/en/tape_measure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Measuring_tape_icon.svg
y y y y M D T
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I'm deeply impressed with your work by the way....
I'M defnetly goin to keep the safe, and put a calandar thing up in front....
Btw details are nice people but they should not be as important that wen they dont work in small sizes the icon loses its meening.
So the trick is to do styf that actualy is recognisable by the overal shape.
http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/comspec/images/512%20Time%20Machine.png
Interestingly, that's actually how I'm working with casual backup browsing. See http://blog.chatonka.com/TimeVault-6.png for an early prototype of the widget. My idea is that it would show up at the bottom of Dolphin, the File Chooser, or anything else that uses kde to show the filesystem (of course it would be optional, or toggled).
for some reason my openid wasn't accepted :/
feels kinda natural and easy to do, and one could place some funny dates on the timeline :)
For me a more realistic picture would be a arrow (to the left or into the background and smaller vaults placed on it. Or a vault with such an arrow inside (and of course visible, so its not really "save" :-( )
Because the Time Vault feature is used to save backups over days, weeks, and months, not just over a few hours or minutes, I think that a calendar would be more appropriate than any kind of clock.