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Ok, as a dev who doesn't use github much, I'll give my best guess as to what those icons mean. Respectively:

Home

Alerts

Merging

Documentation

Interactive Heartbeat Sensor, presumably using my webcam, to notify authorities when I'm having a heart attack

Graphs

Branching

Settings

How close was I?

By the way, alt text is absolutely essential for screen readers to function. Don't exclude the blind if they have reason to use your site! Blind people definitely use Github.




Glad to see GitHub getting into the telemedicine space.


That's about what I would have guessed too, except I think "documentation" is "wiki", and "merging" is "pull requests".

The icons for pull requests and branches are far too similar to each other, in my opinion.


For the pull request icon, I would use the upper torso of a stick figure pulling a rope, a la tug-of-war.




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