I’d definitely prefer just icons to “icons plus text in a language I don’t understand”. The text would be visually distracting, and I’d be wondering what it meant and whether it was trying to tell me something I hadn’t yet figured out.
This is an easily solvable problem: allow the user to toggle the text labels off (but default to them being on).
Folks, these are not new UX design challenges. On the contrary, they are long-solved problems; they’ve been solved for decades. There is no reason to suddenly reinvent the wheel, or to start violating established best practices. Doing so will just result in confused and annoyed users—as it has here.
Honestly I don’t think that would solve it for me? For one I need to find, without text, the way to turn the labels off. For two, even if I succeed, it won’t be visually distracting any more but I’ll still be wondering what it meant and whether it was trying to tell me something I hadn’t yet figured out.
I’d definitely prefer just icons to “icons plus text in a language I don’t understand”. The text would be visually distracting, and I’d be wondering what it meant and whether it was trying to tell me something I hadn’t yet figured out.
This is an easily solvable problem: allow the user to toggle the text labels off (but default to them being on).
Folks, these are not new UX design challenges. On the contrary, they are long-solved problems; they’ve been solved for decades. There is no reason to suddenly reinvent the wheel, or to start violating established best practices. Doing so will just result in confused and annoyed users—as it has here.
Honestly I don’t think that would solve it for me? For one I need to find, without text, the way to turn the labels off. For two, even if I succeed, it won’t be visually distracting any more but I’ll still be wondering what it meant and whether it was trying to tell me something I hadn’t yet figured out.