Paying attention to your icons and constancy can truly pay off
把注意力放在圖標(biāo)上硅蹦，這樣才能真正做到一致性巩剖。
Coursera- Coursera is an online education service which provides free university courses on all sorts of topics.
Coursera——
Coursera是一款在線教育服務(wù)APP盯另，它能免費(fèi)提供大學(xué)各類主題的課程。
Through Coursera, you can take a biology course from Harvard or finance from Stanford - for free. What they do is amazing. Yet, when you try to browse through their courses using their app, the experience is not that engaging. When you try to look for new courses they are organized in a grid where they are divided into topics.
通過Coursera逼裆，你能免費(fèi)學(xué)習(xí)哈佛的生物課或者斯坦福的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)課程蓝仲。Coursera所做的事情讓人吃驚。但是泊柬，當(dāng)你試著使用他們的APP瀏覽課程時椎镣，感覺并沒有那么好。當(dāng)你試著尋找新課程時兽赁，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)這些課程被分為各種主題状答，并以網(wǎng)格形式布局呈現(xiàn)。
Furthermore, the topics are accommodated with big icons. The icons are boring; they may depict the topic well but they are also mismatched in style. Some icons are outline, some are solid, some are both, some use negative space, and some use transparency. Similar topics are also colour coded where ‘Art’ and ‘Music, Film and Audio’ are both purple. The colours picked are unattractive, too similar and doesn’t do too much justice. Colour coding helps, but right now most of the topics are blue; there are three different shades of blue making 14/25 categories blue.
此外刀崖，這些主題以很大的圖標(biāo)進(jìn)行標(biāo)識惊科。那些圖標(biāo)很煩人，盡管它們可能會很好地描繪了主題的內(nèi)容亮钦，但在設(shè)計上很突兀馆截。一些圖標(biāo)是線形的，一些是有填充色的蜂莉，另一些是二者兼有的蜡娶；一些是使用“負(fù)面空間”（譯者注：負(fù)面空間是一個藝術(shù)上的特殊名詞，指的是一張圖畫或照片中映穗，畫面主體之外的空間部分窖张。），而另一些使用透明蚁滋。相似的主題宿接，顏色也相似赘淮，像“藝術(shù)”和“音樂、電影和音頻”都是紫色的睦霎。APP中所使用的顏色毫無吸引力梢卸，它們太相似了，并且一點都不合理副女。對顏色進(jìn)行編碼很有用蛤高，但在這款A(yù)PP中大部分主題都是藍(lán)色，它一共采用了3種不同的藍(lán)色色調(diào)來制作了14/25種不同類型的藍(lán)色肮塞。
This iconography is on the right track; it’s just not 100% there. Tone down the hues and pick better combinations to colour code. Next, spend some time in making sure the style matches. Having higher quality icons has potential to increase engagement and excite students to find new courses. It’s okay to use colour within the icons as well to help bring them further to life; no one ever said all icons have to be exclusively white. Above all, have fun with it. Icons don’t have to be dull, they can also be fun.
采用“圖標(biāo)形象”的方式是對的襟齿，但Coursera的使用方法并不是100%正確。應(yīng)該淡化色調(diào)枕赵，并且采用組合的方式進(jìn)行顏色編碼猜欺。接下來，花一些時間來確保圖標(biāo)樣式上互相匹配拷窜。高質(zhì)量的圖標(biāo)會提高人們的參與度开皿，并激勵學(xué)生找到新課程。在圖標(biāo)中使用顏色是個好辦法篮昧，這樣能夠幫助人們更進(jìn)一步地把圖標(biāo)和生活聯(lián)系起來赋荆，沒人說過所有的圖標(biāo)一定要是全白色“米颍總之窄潭，享受這一切吧，圖標(biāo)并沒有那么沉悶酵颁，它們也能很有趣嫉你。
Take away:If you are using icons as part of your design don’t let them fall short. They can be a great design element if you make sure the icons are high quality.
總結(jié)：如果你想使用圖標(biāo)作為你設(shè)計的一部分，就不要敷衍對待它們躏惋。如果你確定使用了高質(zhì)量的圖標(biāo)幽污，那這些圖標(biāo)就能成為出色的設(shè)計元素。
