2. Suggested Changes to Notebook Icons
a. Audio playback icon
We find the record, pause, and stop buttons to be so intuitive because of their consistency with other computer and real-world players. Therefore, we’re stumped as to why there isn’t a play button for paper-based control of audio records. While there are handy icons for scrolling within a record, it’s not initially semantically clear what the purpose of this icon is for.
Putting a “play” triangle somewhere on this image would greatly assist users in figuring out how to operate the pen using paper. Above we show our suggested change.
