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Copy the image of versus incorporate the essence of. We wear a Casio because it looks retro, but we check our phones for the time. We have a cassette player in

Copy the image of versus incorporate the essence of. We wear a Casio because it looks retro, but we check our phones for the time. We have a cassette player in our house, but we use a Bluetooth cassette to play MP3s on it. We put a 3D-printed Sony Walkman phone case around our iPhones instead of digging out the real thing and enjoying the original media with all its perks and problems. I would use tea as an example. We can drink a modern aluminum can of iced tea that contains 50 ingredients, none of which is tea, or we can take it slow and do a complete traditional tea ritual. One is loosely inspired by the past, the other is immersing yourself in tradition. The floppy disk save icon comes to mind.

ghostpepper 4y ago
Curious what icon you would replace it with
- Karawebnetwork 4y ago
  Nostalgia is not always negative, and I didn't mean to imply that it needs to be replaced. Everyone knows that the icon stands for "Save" even if they don't know where it came from. In a recent tweet from Japan, younger people wonder why the "Save" button in Excel is a vending machine with a drink in the tray. Another popular tweet shows a child wondering why their parents 3D printed a save button. In both cases, they understood the icon stood for save without knowing what it was. As for your question, I would either use a circle with an arrow in it or an open box with an arrow in it. Perhaps a cloud with an arrow if it's saving to the cloud. Another alternative is a bookmark style icon (but then you need to ask: will the future generations experience physical books at all?) However, I'm not a UI/UX expert, and this might clash with the Download button, so you'd have to ask whether or not the distinction is important in your own application. Keeping the convention of a mysterious floppy disk might still be the right choice.

ghostpepper 4y ago

Curious what icon you would replace it with

Karawebnetwork 4y ago
Nostalgia is not always negative, and I didn't mean to imply that it needs to be replaced. Everyone knows that the icon stands for "Save" even if they don't know where it came from. In a recent tweet from Japan, younger people wonder why the "Save" button in Excel is a vending machine with a drink in the tray. Another popular tweet shows a child wondering why their parents 3D printed a save button. In both cases, they understood the icon stood for save without knowing what it was. As for your question, I would either use a circle with an arrow in it or an open box with an arrow in it. Perhaps a cloud with an arrow if it's saving to the cloud. Another alternative is a bookmark style icon (but then you need to ask: will the future generations experience physical books at all?) However, I'm not a UI/UX expert, and this might clash with the Download button, so you'd have to ask whether or not the distinction is important in your own application. Keeping the convention of a mysterious floppy disk might still be the right choice.