1. A method of conveying information about a plurality of peripheral device objects, the method comprising: receiving a selection of an attribute of the peripheral device objects to associate with a visual indicator, the visual indicator comprising a progressively modifiable aspect of an icon image, the icon image being indicative of one or more of the peripheral device objects; associating the selected attribute with the visual indicator; retrieving selected attribute values for the plurality of peripheral device objects in the network; generating an icon image for each of the peripheral device objects, wherein the visual indicator related to each generated icon image is modified based on a relative value within a range of the selected attribute values for the selected attribute of each peripheral device object; and displaying the generated icon images.