In discussions with colleagues today, I moan that I can never remember what the icon means, and Hover over them to see tooltips, and thus to find the button I need.
In their favor, they were saying that when the text is required to be translated, it can not fit (for example German vs. English), and everywhere where the text with tooltips Is it a translation So plain marks are easy.
What's the best way to use YouTube-clever users for the extra work of lesson to use the sub-community?
I personally prefer text and hate icon-only UI I know that other people think in another way, because of internationalization, either equally for them, because their brain works more quickly with images than text. If you choose one or the other specifically for your UI, the share of your user base will be unhappy with your choice. (Sometimes this is the right choice, depending on how widely the UI will be used.)
Internationalization is not really difficult, except to make a good translation of your text In addition to finding the firm. Programmer part of internationalization is very easy. However, I have met several programmers who prefer the all-icon method because it is less work. I personally had to change an all-icon-no-text UI that users did not like. Users said they can not remember what the icon says.
I think that more generally, many advanced users will like icons and many beginner users will prefer text, however many advanced users prefer text, ihho will provide any good UI tooltips, so that You can translate your interface so that whatever you do.
The most favorable solution is to present both text and icons, possibly with the settings option to disable one or the other.
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