[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: First pass UI improvements

[james.cobb@jboss.com]

"julien at jboss.com" wrote : It's better to have no icons rather than inapropriate icons.
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  | Meaningful and appropriate icons are a luxury that the portal team cannot afford so far.

When I was first exposed to Portal, the main usability block was the use of icons only. They were often inappropriate and had no text to help guide the user. I literally had to click around to find out what the links did. We also had a limited amount of time and alot of designs to address so the decision was made to go with text links so we wouldn't spend all the time on icon development (which is an art itself). The text only links were the baseline for future design work.

I am whole-heartedly against icon only links as I find that no icon is universal. An icon/text link system would be great if time could be dedicated to create a meaningful icon set.



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