7. Use clear, recognizable, and consistent icons - Deepstash
7. Use clear, recognizable, and consistent icons

7. Use clear, recognizable, and consistent icons

Skeuomorphism, the design practice of making items resemble their real-world counterparts, is your friend, but you should only take it so far. Having a disk icon for saving or a printer icon for printing is intuitive, but don’t invent new concepts or representations. Limit yourself to reusing well known visual concepts.

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