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Hotmail, get your icons straight

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.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 8:57 am by Sugar and is filed under Rantings, Web Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Hotmail, get your icons straight”

Gerasimos Tsiamalos says:
June 25th, 2008 at 11:15 am

Hm.. a big “exit and delete your account” button will do the job i think.
Svelon says:
June 25th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Long live microsoft!

You are two emails sort..

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