Comments on: Feed Me: The New Standard Icon

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:55:42 +0000

Funny, we are in the process of redesigning our company website and I was just recently thinking about what to use for an icon…I considered the standard XML/RSS orange buttons, but preferred to call them “feeds” which I think is a more user-friendly term. I will definitely use this icon, and plan to customize it for my company’s brand colors.

By: fathima

fathima — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:20:37 +0000

Maybe I’m being narrow-minded, but I’m reminded of the movement early on to have all links be blue.
Simply because most people aren’t going to agree on using these icons (oh how confidently I make my prophecies), this particular movement is doomed to failure.
They’re pretty icons, though. And a pretty site.

By: Andrew Faulkner

Andrew Faulkner — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:14:45 +0000

I can definitely see these catching on - but people will always want to be different and will break the rules.

By: Tyroga

Tyroga — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:08:48 +0000

Sure they want it to be common among sites… but why not RSS (and the button associated with it)… the more we use the term the more it will become “User friendly”.

I always saw a “dot” or other glyph with radiating lines to mean Wireless… not Syndication or RSS.

I think user hand-holding has been going on for centuries in the English language and that is why we have so many words with so many meanings.

IMHO it should be called what it is rather than a generic term that already has many other meanings.

By: Zeerus

Zeerus — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:40:59 +0000

like the website mentions, a single icon across the web spectrum would certainly make an RSS feed easier to recognize, but at what cost? creativity, originality

While I have nothing against a universal shape (dot with audio waves), I think every website manager should have creative say over their final output. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great idea, but I’m not sure if it’s really going to catch on.

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