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Design Guidance Exploration – Icons and Symbology (PDF format)

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Design Guidance Exploration – Alert Symbol Design (PDF format)

Groundwork – Icons and Symbology

Introduction

The design groundwork exploration in the Design Guidance Exploration – Icons and Symbology document provides you with design exploration and recommendations for displaying icons and symbols in clinical applications. It enables unambiguous display of icons and symbols, while enhancing patient safety and clinical application usability, by:

• Ensuring a consistent visual representation of icons and symbols
• Facilitating fast, accurate and intuitive interpretation of icons and symbols, in a manner which users find acceptable
• Complying with internationalization requirements and accessibility standards

The design groundwork exploration is broken down further to provide recommendations for displaying alert symbols in the document Design Guidance Exploration – Alert Symbol Design. This includes advice on defining a visual syntax for alert symbols, including the representation of prohibitions, mandatory actions, warnings and suggested actions.