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29.06.09 Icons for Interaction

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending @media 2009 in London, where it has to be said, I had the best conference experience I’ve had for a long time. I prefer the more cosy nature of the event – a single track, not too large and overwhelming quantity of people, and simply great talks. I can’t pick one favourite presentation, as I came away feeling really inspired and energised by everything.

It was also the last @media curated by Patrick Griffiths, who is moving on to follow other passions (from next year the conference will be in the able hands of the Web Directions Team). I want to take this opportunity to thank Patrick for encouraging me to talk, and giving the best possible environment to do it in.

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After giving the presentation, I realised that there are 2 areas, only touched on briefly here, that should be expanded on: Icon Accessibility and Icon Usability Testing. Those are big topics for another day/talk/blog post, so until then here are my slides for my talk on ‘Icons for Interaction’:

Download the Icons for Interaction PDF (18mb). All links are available on my delicious account, tagged icondesigntalk. My speaking notes are also included in the PDF, hopefully this will be enough to make the slides meaningful.

The typeface I used for this was Comic Crafts Astronauts in Trouble.

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No.1

∞ Chris Williams said 149 days ago:

That was terrific. A real page turner. If you could bundle that with some charming British voice over, it would be even more perfect.

Awesome!

No.2

∞ Rubén Rojas said 149 days ago:

Hey, excelent the presentation. Look this page that i have bookmarked and see the icons for interaction http://teoskaffa.com/, for me is awesome, never see some like this, it’s really interesting how the designer of the page use icons and sounds for interaction.
Cheers!!!

No.3

∞ Sean Foushee said 149 days ago:

Beautifully done! This would make a great chapter in a web interface design book.

No.4

∞ marc said 149 days ago:

Great slides. Wish I would have seen the talk. A real pleasure just to watch the PDF though!

No.5

∞ David Hughes said 149 days ago:

It was great to see your talk at @Media and to get a chance to meet you properly.

Great content and great visuals.

Thanks

No.6

∞ dtamas said 149 days ago:

thanks for this beautiful prezentation!

No.7

∞ Sebastiaan de With said 149 days ago:

Very nice presentation. I’m glad you posted the slides.

No.8

∞ Smokey Ardisson said 148 days ago:

FYI, the clickable link on the very last slide takes you to the wrong delicious tag ;-)

I was surprised not to see memory usage listed as a disadvantage of sprites, given the attention it’s gotten lately.

I enjoyed the slides, though; very timely as I’m starting to think about a bunch of cbo stuff.

No.9

∞ Matthias said 148 days ago:

Thanks for sharing this beautiful presentation!

I really regret it that I could not make it to London…

No.10

∞ Andrea Cima Serniotti said 147 days ago:

It was great to see your talk at @media, and great to find somebody with the same opinion as me about CSS Sprites ;-) Thanks!

No.11

∞ Shane said 147 days ago:

Thanks a lot for the slides, Jon.

I don’t know why, but I always get confused between the male/female symbols for toilets.

Somehow, though, I don’t think that would cut it with the police. ;)

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∞ steve lam said 146 days ago:

just letting you know, when in comment writing mode aka here, something at the top seems to come out of alignment as shown here. this seems to only happen in firefox 3.5 (looks fine in safari 4)