The ubiquitous icon

[Sherry C]

Howdy John,

Thanks so much for your thoughts on the interaction between real people (our musicians!) and software. It's really quite helpful to us to know what aspects of the software make things easier or harder for the ultimate goal of making music. Our goal with the software is to provide an easy to use tool - a helpful partner - in the music making process. We want to know what areas need improvement, and how best to make such improvements for the most users.

You mentioned that you wouldn't take a stab at any specific icons, but perhaps in lieu of that you could point us to a program that has done a good job of creating icons that are easy to associate with different tasks that are closely related. As you mentioned, that "close but a little different" aspect is an issue, because so many tasks are closely related with the exception of one aspect of their functionality (eg. "shifting" commands).

Thanks!
Sherry