Creating an Image System Equally Suitable for 3 Continents

Gents toilet, India

Recently I’ve been given an interesting challenge that includes creating a complex user interface that should work well for people not familiar with computers [read: Windows] at all. Not only should it work with computer “illiterates” – It should work equally well on three very different continents.

Take India for instance. If you need to take a leak in India and you’re a guy, you apparently shouldn’t be looking for the classic western silhouette of a man indicating that there is a rest room on the other side of the door. You should be looking for something like the above.. (more)

- Who knows what other subtle differences we have here? Ok, I’m not doing a rest room user interface here, so maybe I’m ok…