How were the symbols designed?
All the health care symbols were designed for this project. You may find elements youve seen before. This is because initially, existing symbols were collected and associated with one or more of the references included in the project. These existing symbols were analyzed for the concepts used to represent the referent. A team of designers with expertise in health care, symbol and graphic design, selected existing symbols or designed new ones. Over 600 symbols were evaluated or created for the project. Through a survey method, successfully used in many different countries and adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), symbols were tested for comprehensibility with four language groups. To learn more about the survey tool clickhere.
All the health care symbols were designed for this project. You may find elements youve seen before. This is because initially, existing symbols were collected and associated with one or more of the references included in the project. These existing symbols were analyzed for the concepts used to represent the referent. A team of designers with expertise in health care, symbol and graphic design, selected existing symbols or designed new ones. Over 600 symbols were evaluated or created for the project. Through a survey method, successfully used in many different countries and adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), symbols were tested for comprehensibility with four language groups. To learn more about the survey tool click here. In the Comprehension Estimation survey, for each referent, five or six symbols were displayed and survey responders were asked to estimate the percent of the population that spoke their language would comprehend the symbols to mean
