Re: Proposal for new art for GNU PSPP

[John Darrington]

Hi Bastián,

Thanks for dropping in.

As before, I think these look very good and very professional.

I tend to agree that it is difficult to make visual metaphors which everyone 
can undestand,
especially for very abstract ideas that one often finds in statistics.  
Although I think you
are doing a very good job. (I particularly like the ROC curve and reliability 
pictograms).

I'm not sure what you are suggesting.  Are you suggesting that we leave just 
the Analyze menu
without icons, or all the menus?

Also, I have a question.  Where do you envisage that the alignment icons (left, 
centre, right)
should appear?  

Regards,

John


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:54:46PM -0700, Bastián Díaz wrote:
     
     However, Hugo and I have doubts about the usefulness of the icons 
representing the statistical analysis, and we have good experience using 
various (user interface for this analysis) as Stata, SPSS, Statistica or SAS 
and have given note that for these software features, help for a cleaner 
interface and clear, not display icons in the menu, as many of their analysis, 
they share concepts and representations they would not be clear enough to 
distinguish just looking at her pictographic representation.
     
     
     A good example of this, we see in the Stata software, which is praised for 
its clear and powerful interface. Stata, by default does not display icons in 
menus on any platform (well shows keyboard shortcuts for some options). 
Furthermore it gives consistency to the UI.
     A counter-example can be seen in the SPSS software. SPSS has an icon for 
all your options (which is good), but unfortunately, many of them are so 
similar, they do not fulfill their function (pictorial representation of its 
function) and make recognition more difficult.
     
     Therefore, we recommend that PSPP not display icons in the menu, and in 
the future as to enhance using the toolbar, which may contain analyzes 
categories are there in the application, and these categories present in lists 
their analysis.

     
     A model of the concept Mockup (early design). This is just an idea, and it 
all depends on what you deem as developers.
     
     Thank you very much. I hope your comments.




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