| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from the earliest representations. The in-depth analysis demonstrates how these visual languages now serve as a rich source for renewed study for the development of meaningful computer icons. |
| Contents |
Learning from the past to inform the present: Maya hieroglyphic writing -- Simple words and visual metaphors -- Designing icons for the graphical user interface -- Computer compound icons and their families -- Evaluating representative and abstract computer compound icons -- Navigating interfaces. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World Wide Web.
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World Wide Web. |
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Computer interfaces.
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Computer interfaces. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Honeywill, Paul. Visual language for the World Wide Web. Exeter : Intellect, 1999 187151696X (DLC) 2001265733 (OCoLC)42833774 |
| ISBN |
0585210993 (electronic book) |
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9780585210995 (electronic book) |
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1841508624 (electronic book) |
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9781841508627 (electronic book) |
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128047744X |
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9781280477447 |
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187151696X |
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