Figure-ground
Sorry about the quality of this image taken quickly on the move. It's a rare example of figure-ground problem in action. Perhaps you got it straight away but it took a little while for me to see the image here. I can't think why in retrospect - but, of course, once you've recognised something it's almost impossible to erase your understanding. That's why we need to test icons - the designer knows what they mean, and can never see them fresh.
Labels: Graphics
posted by Rob Waller @ 2:24 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
The problem seems to lie with the choice of the circle as the bounding shape – it’s produced the ‘man in the moon’ effect. Would a rectangle have produced the same ambiguity? On road signs a circle = ‘mandatory’; perhaps that was in the designer’s mind too.
I think it's interesting to have 2.5 images in 1; the person saying "shhhhh", the moon for sleeping, and the almost reference to a lumpy old-school mobile.
Oliver
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