Leave it to Hotmail to ignore all unwritten laws of icon semantics.
While I was searching for a particular e-mail the other day, I stumbled upon this:
Any idea what this icon signifies? No, it’s not “go down a level”. No, it’s not “expand”, if that’s what you were thinking. No, it doesn’t mean “go south and wait for the icebergs to show up”.
It means “empty folder”.
Yay for semantics and conceptual models!
I know, I know. Hotmail is a dead service, probably. But I can’t resist beating on this particular dead horse.
3 comments on this post
Gerasimos Tsiamalos #1
25.Jun.08
Hm.. a big “exit and delete your account” button will do the job i think.
Svelon #2
25.Jun.08
Long live microsoft!
You are two emails sort..
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