Comments on: Icon Test Results Revealed

By: Usability Testing

Usability Testing — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:40:59 +0000

Thank you for this useful information. If you want to sell more on the internet you have to know why people buy from you. You get this information only with usability tests.

By: Björn Balazs

Björn Balazs — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:43:00 +0000

The aspect “Discriminatory power” is a bit misleading in this test. It indicates how often an icon has been chosen for other terms as well. In this test we did only ask for one term per set of icons (within one module of the test) – so there was no chance that the same icon could have been sorted to different term in the same module as well – hence all icons get te maximum score on this value. As the test of course is an indicator, not something you shoul follow blindly, this is actually not a problem…

And yes, the main result of the test is: we need new icons for Tine – just using some more or less fitting icons from Oxygen does not take us where we want to get to… Your suggestions point to right direction there

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:45:38 +0000

I think the ratings for “Discriminatory power” are a bit strange: Every icon has the the highest rating (10)? In the case of the green crosses in “Add Appointment” and “Add Calendar” this could not be … at last they are the same symbols for different tasks.

In my opinion it would best to use “logical combined icons” for adding stuff: If I like to add something (calendar, user, resource, …) I will look for and “add Symbol” (like the green cross). To distinguish the different types of “add Symbols” there should be a second element in the icon representing the kind of stuff (resource, user, appointment, …) to add.