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How much can you remember?
You're a busy nurse using a machine that delivers medicine. To keep your patient healthy you need to choose the right button to press or the right picture to read to get the information you need. There's no time to waste.
How quickly can you answer these questions? Remember choosing the wrong picture (or even taking too long to do it) could hurt your patient!
Question One
Does your machine have enough battery power to deliver medicine for two hours?
Which of these symbols will let you check the battery?
Question Two
You are ready to get started.
Which of these is the button to Start the machine?
Question Three
What's that noise?
Which button would you use to switch off the alarm sound?
Question Four
You've run out of battery.
Which picture below is telling you that you need to plug the machine in?
When you have finished check back to see if you were right.
The meaning of a well designed symbol should be easy to remember. Which of these do you think are good symbols and which are poorer symbols? Which do you think should really have a written label too and which are so totally obvious there is no need?
