[Tango-artists] Advise on icon wanted

[Rodney Dawes]

Hi,

Just one thing that sticks out, and probably is preventing the UI and
the one icon you've done, from being the best they can be.

Looking at the "Documentation" on gcstar.org, I see that "Tonight"
just simply plays a random item in the database. Based on that, the
term "Tonight" doesn't seem to have anything to do with the action.
It's not at all based on the time of day, or anything relating to
today, or night. Perhaps clarifying that in the UI will help to design
a more fitting icon for it. A suggestion might be to call it "Play
Random", and to re-title "Play" to "Play Selected". With that, you can
re-design both icons to be more appropriate for their actions.

As far as your icon goes, I don't think it fits at all. A chat bubble
just doesn't make any sense for the action, and the time of day is
irrelevant as I mentioned above. But it is a nice drawing. :)

-- dobey


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 15:14 +1100, nyall wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> I'm trying to create some tango styled icons for gcstar
> (http://www.gcstar.org, a personal dvd/book/game/etc collection manager)
> to replace some stock icons that don't really match with the function.
> 
> These are the first tango styled icons I've created, so I'd appreciate
> any suggestions on how I can improve them! To start with, I've made an
> icon to for the "tonight" feature, which basically suggests a movie from
> your collection for you to view. 
> 
> I've based the icon off the last.fm recommendation icon I saw appear on
> this group a few days ago - and I'd also like to know if there's any
> issues with using this icon as a base for my icon - i definitely don't
> want to do the wrong thing by you guys!
> 
> The icon i've got so far is at:
> http://www.crossbow.com.au/zombiepigs/tonight.svg
> Any advise/suggestions/criticisms would be greatly appreciated!
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> Nyall
>