[IxDA Discuss] thumbs up gesture

[Peter Bagnall]

Would a tick or cross work? I don't know how cross-cultural that is  
either but I guess it's probably better than a hand gesture. Does a  
tick not work for anyone?

--Pete

On 23 Jun 2006, at 07:03, Julie Stanford wrote:

> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only relevant quoted  
> material.]
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having an interesting discussion with a client about using a  
> thumbs
> up/thumbs down icon in an interface to indicate like/dislike for  
> something.
>
> The web service will mostly be used in the US, but could eventually  
> become
> global so he'd like to think globally. He pointed me to an interesting
> article about the thumbs up gesture which strongly suggests that we  
> abandon
> it.
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n12_v17/ai_18938015
>
> However, given that for the early adopter phase of this product  
> there will
> not really be wide usage outside of the US (or even outside of Silicon
> Valley for that matter), my thinking is that I am not as concerned  
> right now
> about internationalization because there are so many other issues  
> with this
> interface.
>
> So, a few questions for the global audience on this list:
>
> 1) Am I totally wrong? Should I be really concerned that thumbs up/ 
> down is
> offensive?
>
> 2) What are alternatives to thumbs up/down for expressing that you
> like/dislike something?  Unfortunately, it is not going to work to  
> rate
> something on a scale of 1-X or whatever. We really need just a like/ 
> don't
> like quick symbol.  Also note that a star isn't going to work for  
> various
> reasons.
> They suggested just and up/down arrow but that implies movement to me.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> julie
>
>
>
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