&gt; Icons are visual language. You have to teach the user what the icon means.<p>Which is the first problem, we don&#x27;t care, we don&#x27;t want to learn your crappy custom little visual language. We already know how to read, use words.<p>&gt; Once that happens, then icons are way faster.<p>That never usually happens; use words, icons suck and we&#x27;re all tired of them.  Works work better, we all know how to read and don&#x27;t need you to &quot;teach&quot; us anything.