For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism

mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/22/0815216/For-GUIs-Just-the-Right-Degree-of-Realism?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/22/0815216"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/22/0815216/For-GUIs-Just-the-Right-Degree-of-Realism?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OtoS2gzkievg5zpjncXUpOJveKY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OtoS2gzkievg5zpjncXUpOJveKY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OtoS2gzkievg5zpjncXUpOJveKY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OtoS2gzkievg5zpjncXUpOJveKY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/_T5Tbbo_-Ls" height="1" width="1"/

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