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No, we can’t read your mind. Please label your icons.

Member-only story Label Your Icons No, we can’t read your mind. Please label your icons. Mary Formanek 14 min read · May 16, 2020 -- 1 Listen Share a group of diverse complex icons N ot labeling your icons is the same as assuming that we are all fluent in ancient hieroglyphics. Are you? Can you just walk up to Cleopatra's needle and read it like you could read a children's book? Even emojis, our modern hieroglyphics don't mean the same thing to each person. If I send you an eggplant am I talking about my garden or something else? How about a goat? Am I talking about my trip to the farm or an a

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