[sugar] What does "undo" look like?

[Ken Ritchie]

Nice illustration! I'd like this one to pop up to remind me to set my analog
clocks back ("fall back...") when "daylight savings" time ends.  ;-)    I
wonder if Doctor Who might have some idea?

I love the dialogue and "thinking out loud" on this list!  Keep the
brainstorms coming.

--ken
;-)

On 3/27/07, Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What if it referred not to going backwards in writing,
> > > but backwards in time (counterclockwise) - overlay the
> > > arrow on an analog clock face?
> >
> > Nice idea.  Do clocks run clockwise everywhere in the world?  I think
> > clockwise-running clocks are pervasive enough that it may be safe to
> > make that association.
>
>
> 30sec illustration attached (terrible, but you get the idea.)
>
> The "clockwise" convention was developed because that's how sundials
> worked in the Northern hemisphere - unsure whether "counterclockwise" clocks
> exist aside from joke shoppes, but I'm willing to bet that clockwise clocks
> are more prevalent than LTR writing systems if this is actually a worry. The
> clock makes the icon significantly more complex, although it resolves a lot
> of the {stylistic*, meaning} ambiguity of the "usual" undo. As Ka-Ping said,
> this might just turn out to be a non-issue. Or it might be one of those cool
> subtle touches that spreads to other places.
>
> *at least I haven't seen two "undo" icons that look much alike - as
> opposed to the immediately recognizable "back," "forward" "close-X" "email"
> etc. icons, but maybe that's just me.
>
> -Mel
>
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