Jenni Merrifield
happy I’m looking forward to seeing what other icons people would like to see
Jenni Merrifield November 26, 2010 20:42

Additional Icon Ideas

I thought I'd start this topic and ask other Mockup users to list any icons that would probably be useful to a lot of others but are currently missing from the collection. Maybe, if we're lucky, Peldi and crew will give us a few of them in an upcoming release.

To start the list, here are a few icons I often wish we had:


  • Circled Question Mark ("Help")
    I know there is a stand alone "help" button, but it's only available at one size (it seems to equate to the icon XS size) and sometimes I need a bigger version. I also know there is a simple Question Mark, but even with it's border on it just doesn't have the right look for "help"

  • Stand Alone Exclamation Mark
    As mentioned above, we do have a stand alone question mark and an exclamation mark would be nice.

  • Asterisk
    A simple six-armed line drawn star. Sometimes the existing filled in five-pointed star is more than I need

  • Spade, Club, Diamond, Heart (both filled-in and clear)
    We already have an clear heart and a filled in diamond, so how about we complete the sets

  • Broken Links
    Both plain and with a globe. Sometimes you need to represent "unlink" or "remove link"

  • Recycle
    Traditional recycling triangle image

  • A Placeholder
    This would be something that looks similar to the unassigned image control that can be used to represent any icon you need that just doesn't match up to any icon that currently exists



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  • Michael Angeles EMPLOYEE
    Michael Angeles (Official Rep) November 26, 2010 22:40
    Thanks, Jenni. We have quite a queue of icon requests building up. This is on my radar.
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  • Martin Kessner
    Martin Kessner May 26, 2011 08:13
    The placeholder-icon would make Balsamiq even more Zenware-like. When wireframing away, I might not want to worry about the visual aspect of an icon yet - especially, I do not want to be forced to pick an icon that doesn't really fit (very un-Zen-like). Also, I might not want to communicate any visual aspect of the icon to the recipient of the wireframe (who might be the visual designer of the icon).

    There kind of is a placeholder-icon, but not really: After placing the icon-widget but before assigning an icon to it, the placeholder says "select an icon". Almost good, but the property inspector doesn't have the size-slider until an icon is assigned. How about scratching the "select an"-part, keeping the "icon"-part, adding a line-break so it fits into the space of a small or extra-small icon? Like this:
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  • Michael Angeles EMPLOYEE
    Michael Angeles (Official Rep) May 26, 2011 13:39
    Martin, that's true. Mockups doesn't allow you to set dimensions on the icon until you select an icon. I've been using square icon or selecting X and turning on borders to look like a placeholder, but that can be potentially confused.

    So here's our situation now:



    We'll review this to see if we like the direction.
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    Jenni Merrifield May 26, 2011 13:54
    I don't particularly like the text aspect, especially at the smaller sizes where you can't print the whole thing.

    I'd still prefer a resizable version of the image placeholder as a full square with the diagonals marked is a pretty standard indicator for "placeholder":

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