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> Our department is coming up with some icons for "warning," "caution," and
"note"
> for use in our installation and programming guides for detection equipment
and
> their related controls.
Be careful which icons you use. Where I used to work, we used an
exploding computer as the warning icon. One of competitors used this
icon against us in one of their marketing videos. They showed a page
from one of our manuals, did a close up of the icon, and claimed that
the icon shows how "unreliable" our products are. Needless to say, we
designed another icon.
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Matthew Stern
Sr. Technical Writer
Platinum Software Corporation
The opinions here are solely my own.
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