Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons. He's the founder of 
Friday 19 August 2011
“Only Geeks Understand Link Icons” →
Peter Steen Høgenhaug, suggesting we consider using something other than the ubiquitous link icon for inserting hypertext links in an application:
All in all, only 35.29% of the test participants understood the chain icon, and only 25% understood the globe icon. While we didn’t set a minimum for success, clearly, 25% is not good when it comes to usability. When being interviewed one of our participants asked:
‘Why not just write WWW? Everyone understands that!’
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All in all, only 35.29% of the test participants understood the chain icon, and only 25% understood the globe icon....
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Only geeks understand link icons
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