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by zdragnar 1584 days ago
Do visual icons like the three lines for a menu help or hurt the usability of an application for people with dyslexia?

I had assumed iconography was a boon for illiterate people- thinking primarily of symbols on shop signs or a striped barbers pole, for example.

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> Do visual icons like the three lines

They hurt usability even for people perfectly capable of reading. Especially when Material fanboy fill everything with whitespace and bans black for the text.