[LINK] Are GUI design standards no longer relevanr?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:28 PM,  <grove at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
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>> On 18/01/2010, at 9:22 PM, David Lochrin wrote:
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>>> Words are best.  This is why civilisation evolved written language from pictographs.
>>
>> Words are best? I love such generalisations, especially since I've spent most of my working life as an editor...
>
> Imagine a culture who had never seen or heard of a bow and arrow,
> or tipped spear.
>
> Then present them with this symbol:
>
>
>              ->

I see a nose. Or a breast. Or... hrmmm...

Is this ASCII art? It was great fun in the BBS era...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

;-)
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