On 03/01/2013 07:56 AM, Heather Walls wrote:
Hi Quim and Pau,
TL;DR, the suggested design icons are men.
Good point, arguably applicable to the icon we are using for "meetings" as well: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Community_Noun_project_2280.svg
For the rest of cases we went for non-antropomorphic icons, and perhaps this is a good guideline to keep to avoide these unwanted side effects.
For what is worth I was proposing a ruler for Design - following a the line of abstraction & simplicity we seem to be following.
http://thenounproject.com/noun/ruler/#icon-No1693
While I know that you have no intention to imply anything in that regard, if I were approaching as a volunteer and a woman it would (maybe only subconsciously) read to me as if things are a bit man-centric.
I would prefer that not be the case.
+1
Regarding the design icon I would prefer something more simplistic. Since icons seem to be based on the noun project, I took the architect one <http://thenounproject.com/__noun/architect/#icon-No1484 <http://thenounproject.com/noun/architect/#icon-No1484>> and made this quick adaptation <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/__30377416/design/mw_design___icon_idea.svg <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30377416/design/mw_design_icon_idea.svg>> to make it a bit more MediaWiki specific (and replace #000 with #111). I made a screenshot of the result in the page <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/__30377416/design/mw_design___icon_in_context.png <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30377416/design/mw_design_icon_in_context.png>> to see the icon in context.