Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Trademarks -- Introduction to a Visual Language for the World Wide Web -- Chapter 1: Learning from the Past to Inform the Present: Maya Hieroglyphic Writing -- Overall Reading Order of a Complete Maya Text -- Verb First in the Maya Sentence Structure -- Verb First within Computer Syntax -- Individual Hieroglyphs and Computer Icons -- Reusing Hieroglyph and Computer Icon Elements -- Organising Maya Hieroglyphs into Three Distinct Categories -- Representational Hieroglyphs -- Phonetic Hieroglyphs -- Maya Hieroglyphs which use a Mixture of Representational and Phonetic Elements -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Simple Words and Visual Metaphors -- Partial Writing Systems -- Isotype -- Standardising Symbols -- Base Lexical Icon Elements -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Designing Icons for the Graphical User Interface -- Visual Reading Order within a Compound Icon -- Conflict, Contrast or Harmony within a Compound Icon -- Using Space within a Compound Icon -- Using Type within a Compound Icon -- Reusing an Icon Element within a Compound -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Computer Compound Icons and their Families -- Consistent Use of Symbols -- Case Studies -- Case Study 1: Marine Security Limited -- The First Element: Background Circle -- The Second Element: M -- The Third Element: Underlining the M -- The Fourth Element: S -- Case Study 2: Print and Publish Belize -- Changing a Letterform into a Symbol Element -- Computer Compound Icons and their Families -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Evaluating Representative and Abstract Computer Compound Icons -- The ABC's of Graphic Symbols -- The ARC Interface -- ARC Evaluation -- Returned Data from the Report Logs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Navigating Interfaces -- User Goals and Sub-goals -- Interfaces that use Real World Metaphors.

Icons from around the World -- Africa -- Asia -- Australasia -- Europe -- Europe - United Kingdom -- North America excluding USA -- United States of America -- South America -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.