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I have mixed feelings about this. Lets take something that most on here probably remember, the floppy disk. It is still a common sight as a save icon, but my y
by zer00eyz 9y ago
I have mixed feelings about this.
Lets take something that most on here probably remember, the floppy disk. It is still a common sight as a save icon, but my youngest children have never USED a floppy.
I don't mind the concept, as long as the concept isn't sacrificing functionality, and astethics for the sake of nostalgia.
- nradov 9y agoRight we should use a Zip disk icon instead. Much more modern.
- AstralStorm 9y agoSome software use the standard icon for storage instead - looks like a stack of hard disks. And then you also get the folder icons with arrows on Windows, not floppies.
- oldcynic 9y agoThe floppy - sure, that's obsolete. With what should it be replaced that's universally recognised? Does your youngest need to know it's a floppy, and what that once meant, or just it's the funny icon for save? Just like some of the other indecipherable "universal" icons. The trouble with flat design is it had design without any aesthetics, so a return to some depth and skeuomorphism isn't likely to lose aesthetics.
- guelo 9y agoIcons are written language, culture that is transmitted across generations. The floppy disk symbol stuck and that's what we're left with, it could have been any symbol really. It's actually how all alphabets evolve, some Sumerian would draw a cow and then it would be simplified and generalized over time until some unrecognizable symbol meant "wealth" or something like that.