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People get what radio buttons are even if they never saw a radio with the mutually exclusive buttons[0] that these UI elements were inspired from - they were ob
by badsectoracula 4y ago
People get what radio buttons are even if they never saw a radio with the mutually exclusive buttons[0] that these UI elements were inspired from - they were obsolete even back in the 80s.
Personally i never made the association until almost 2 decades after using computers with radio button elements, despite growing up having a monochrome TV that had actual "radio buttons" (or TV buttons in that case, which probably helped to avoid the association :-P).
And most people know what a phonograph/gramophone is without ever seeing one in person. I don't think a floppy icon will confuse anyone if they know it is for saving and is consistently used as the "saving icon", regardless of if they've seen a real floppy disk or not :-).
[0] https://i.imgur.com/511OME5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/511OME5.jpg
- derefr 4y agoThey might not be on radios any more, but round mutually-exclusive pop-up buttons are still something everyone in the modern world runs into — as, to this day, they're the idiomatic way to do speed selection on table fans.
- badsectoracula 4y agoWell, they are still called radio buttons, not fan buttons :-P. Also i think those might be on their way out, the last fan i bought had a touch buttons (not screen) - and yeah, i often did mis-tap the button i wanted :-/
- maxloh 4y agoAs a front end developer, I don't even know the name "radio" button, comes from radio. It is just something you will learn interacting to after using computer for some time.