I think this is known and intentional (as thanks relates to users). I personally feel the icons are sufficiently different although maybe both having a smile is the cause of conflict. Designers what is your opinion?
The square frowny face is the opposite of thank no? That is the impression the UI gives to me.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Recently on mobile we switched our iconography used to represent a user from being a simplified head and shoulders to being a square smiley face. Unfortunately, the square smiley face is already being used to represent the thank action (via the Thanks extension). You can see an example of these two UI elements being used on the same page in this design mock-up for the mobile media viewer: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media-viewer-tools-mobile-design-pau...
As you can see, it's a bit confusing having 2 square smiley faces in the same interface representing separate things (not to mention the square frowny face for the flag action).
I would suggest that we change one or the other. Since the thank iconography has already been through much debate and revision (originally being a red heart, then a green heart, then a smiley face), I would favor changing the user iconography back to a head and shoulders. Thoughts?
Ryan Kaldari