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Why can't we keep the floppy and use icons like these for new functionality that are more appropriate? There is nothing wrong with the floppy and no, people ar
by sschueller 5y ago
Why can't we keep the floppy and use icons like these for new functionality that are more appropriate?
There is nothing wrong with the floppy and no, people are not too stupid to learn that it means save.
- Tagbert 5y agoicons are symbolic representations. They may have started out as representations of physical object but they can become abstracted become conventions. The save icon may have started as an image of a physical disk/disc but by convention it has moved into an abstraction for storing changes. Taken to an extreme icons can morph from hieroglyphic symbols to alphabetic characters to the point where it can be hard to see what the original object modeled was.