
Visual Language for the World Wide Web
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Content
- Front Cover
- Preliminaries
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Trademarks
- Introduction to a Visual Language for the World Wide Web
- Chapter 1: Learning from the Past to Inform the Present: Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
- Overall Reading Order of a Complete Maya Text
- Verb First in the Maya Sentence Structure
- Verb First within Computer Syntax
- Individual Hieroglyphs and Computer Icons
- Reusing Hieroglyph and Computer Icon Elements
- Organising Maya Hieroglyphs into Three Distinct Categories
- Representational Hieroglyphs
- Phonetic Hieroglyphs
- Maya Hieroglyphs which use a Mixture of Representational and Phonetic Elements
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Simple Words and Visual Metaphors
- Partial Writing Systems
- Isotype
- Standardising Symbols
- Base Lexical Icon Elements
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Designing Icons for the Graphical User Interface
- Visual Reading Order within a Compound Icon
- Conflict, Contrast or Harmony within a Compound Icon
- Using Space within a Compound Icon
- Using Type within a Compound Icon
- Reusing an Icon Element within a Compound
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Computer Compound Icons and their Families
- Consistent Use of Symbols
- Case Studies
- Case Study 1: Marine Security Limited
- The First Element: Background Circle
- The Second Element: M
- The Third Element: Underlining the M
- The Fourth Element: S
- Case Study 2: Print and Publish Belize
- Changing a Letterform into a Symbol Element
- Computer Compound Icons and their Families
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Evaluating Representative and Abstract Computer Compound Icons
- The ABC's of Graphic Symbols
- The ARC Interface
- ARC Evaluation
- Returned Data from the Report Logs
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Navigating Interfaces
- User Goals and Sub-goals
- Interfaces that use Real World Metaphors
- Icons from around the World
- Africa
- Asia
- Australasia
- Europe
- Europe - United Kingdom
- North America excluding USA
- United States of America
- South America
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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