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Icon Design for a Tourism Mobile App

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This article shows the icon design process for the FloripaTour App - a tourism mobile app created to help tourists visiting Florianópolis Island. Five icons were developed to represent these categories of tourist attractions: natural landscapes, architectural and urbanistic elements, singular cultural elements, gastronomy and festive symbols. The icon design process was performed according to these steps: research, analysis, image refinement process, standardization through the same graphic style and evaluate the comprehensibility of icons.

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    Florianopolis is the capital city of the state of Santa Catarina, situated on an island located at the Brazil´s Southern Coast. This charming landscape full of natural beauty attracts many tourists.

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  1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Claudia Regina Batista, Adhemar Maria do Valle Filho, Amanda Mafioletti & Maria Helena Novakoski

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Correspondence to Claudia Regina Batista .

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  1. University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

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Batista, C.R., do Valle Filho, A.M., Mafioletti, A., Novakoski, M.H. (2019). Icon Design for a Tourism Mobile App. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2019 - Posters. HCII 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1032. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23522-2_42

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