10 unusual icon design metaphors

To be honest, I do not really like the posts lists a la "Hot a dozen of something" or "50 of the best someone." But for some reason, such posts are very fond of readers. And I understood why. Writing these texts is quite time consuming and not very fun. But they read easily and fascinatingly. This conjecture was confirmed by my long-time article “ 10 mistakes in icon design ”, which was very warm here. Less than a year and I decided to continue.

Many people think that interface design is a boring, abstruse and boring task. I tried to look at this area a little differently and demonstrate that GUI design is sometimes quite a fun thing. I bring to your attention a review / collection of 10 unusual metaphors in icon design .