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From: George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing Icon
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:48:58 GMT
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Ted Stockwell writes about the Kitchen Sink:

> Should be obvious to everyone who has heard the cliche.

No!  I don't want the understanding of a key interface concept to
be limited to the number of people who know a cliche.

A sink is not abstract enough.  It means "sink", not anything.

Thanks for your thoughts though!  It's fascinating to see the
thoughts on the abstractly, amorphous, generic, artifact in all of us.

George Bray