Icons In Visual Communication Analysis

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We live in the world painted with imageries, our sense of sight is one of the most powerful sense we have, we apply it to process the surroundings around us to our respective brains, so we can accordingly react to it. The whole understanding of the world and leading to survive in it is quite majorly due to our senses.

We see a flashing light of red color and we stop there itself, we see green color and think that we are good to go, but to where? Ere goes an icon is born. If we add a hyphen and a right direction pointer to it we give a meaning to our understanding. We create navigation. Our brain processes it as “to go right” and hence we get a sense of direction on how the system wants us to act.

So, the minute abstraction of imageries …show more content…

With the constant change in interfaces due to the latest trend or need, we need a language that could directly communicate to the general audience. One of the major languages is that of visual communication. Visual communication is something that has been aweing the humanity with amazement throughout millennia. A good visual element not only has an aesthetic definition to it but is also a good guide towards the main motive of the design. One of the major players in the visual dictionary of design is an ‘icon’. Throughout centuries, icons have been used to encapsulated ideas and morals into their visual incarnations so they can sail through time and define and design systems for each generation. Similarly, in the world of interfaces and products, an icon still demands as much attention as it did before. But the enormous boom in the number of products and various interfaces has led to a riot of visual chaos with different (good, bad or ugly) form of an icon. So to speak to every human being in the earth (or beyond) we need a common string to pour in each icon so that each icon in its respective screen, interface, and system can act accordingly. A design should be such that its visual significance not only introduces itself to the user, as an individual product but also on boards the user with the visual dictionary of the ecosystem around

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