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While I support the point behind this article, some of them are... not on point. > Want to indicate Settings or Setup to a twenty something? Show them a tool t
by tricolon 14y ago
While I support the point behind this article, some of them are... not on point.
> Want to indicate Settings or Setup to a twenty something? Show them a tool they've never used in their lives.
What have screwdrivers and wrenches been replaced with?
- StavrosK 14y agoWho cares? A floppy disk nowadays is the thing that indicates "save", and that's it. You don't have to have seen a floppy disk to know that it's the save icon. If that were the case, company logos would be objects. A swoosh is Nike, and that's that.
- dpcan 14y agoSure, but if you're not old enough to know what a floppy disk is, someone would first have to tell you that the floppy disk was the save icon. I think the op's point is that icons are no longer making the user experience intuitive, they are actually adding another step. Young people have to figure out what they represent first before they use them where the point of an icon is to eliminate that step.
- StavrosK 14y agoDefinitely, but I didn't know what a clipboard was before I started copying and pasting (text on the computer)... You probably learn which button is "Save" when learning what saving actually is, I don't know how intuitive the pictograms for these actions can be.
- philwelch 14y ago> What have screwdrivers and wrenches been replaced with? (cynical) A trash can followed by a trip to Wal-Mart.