What is an Icon?

An icon is a small graphic symbol that represents a program, file, or folder on a computer. In Internet terms, icons are the little pictures you see all over your Web browser that, when clicked, perform a function. The envelope that you click for your e-mail; the little printer which, when clicked, will print out whatever page you specify--those are all icons.

A 32-by-32-pixel graphic image used to identify the application in the Explorer window and in other locations in the application chosen by the programmer (such as the Help About dialog). Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 also use 16-by-16-pixel small icons to identify the application in the title bar and elsewhere where small icons are specified.

Although icons appear to be small part of an overall design consideration, professional icon design can play a vital role in a product's success.

User-friendly icons are essential to a products success. If users of an application are not at ease with the navigation & depictions of symbols by appropriate icons, then chances of them using the tool are reduced. Hence professional icon design takes into account factors like HCI – Human Computer Interaction analysis, Usability Design, system-user compatibility, display resolution, visual relationships & principles of graphic icon design.

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