Re: SpamSize of JOBS icon

Thanks a lot for your suggestions humanoid.

Regards
Revathi

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From: "Hemen Parekh" <hcp@recruitguru.com>

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:32 +0530

To: 'Team SiteonMobile'<siteonmobile@gmail.com>

Cc: <shuklendu.baji@sentientsystems.net>; <kailas@3pconsultants.co.in>

Subject: Spam Size of JOBS icon

Revathi

Last few minutes, I was looking at various icons on my phone as well as on iPad

I found that

Ø Icons on mobile screen appear to be  5  mm square

Ø Icons on iPad are  14  mm square

Great majority of icons are square with rounded corners

Most icon carry below the square, a brief description of one/two words

iPad icons , [ being bigger in size ? ] , often carry , within the square, one or two words, often the same words which appear below the square

Mobile phone icons rarely carry any word within the square – obviously due to size-limitation

In iPad, I found, icons of a few job portals such as ; Indeed.com / JobsDB.com / Beyond.com / TimesJobs.com etc

Since the screens of both , iPad as well as a Mobile , are  BLACK , many icons are rendered in   LIGHT  BLUE   or  LIGHT  YELLOW   colors – in order to provide a good contrast and resultant better legibility

Because of size limitation, I cannot think of any IMAGE which would, intuitively convey to the user that this icon has something to do with jobs / job alerts / finding of jobs etc

Hence we must fall back on some  WORD  to convey this message

Only word [ in English language ], which could convey this meaning to people of all countries, is  ”  JOBS “

Therefore, perhaps , the ideal icon for our widget could be :

Ø A square with rounded corners

Ø Word  “ JOBS “ appearing inside the square

Ø Square to be solid sky-blue ( see icon of MySpace )

Ø Word “ JOBS “ in contrasting yellow lines

Ø Word “ JOBS “ to also appear below the square

Please treat these as mere suggestions. Final decision rests with you

Regards

hemen