Icons don’t have to make sense if people can learn them. I think people are being way to hung up on things being too skeuomorphic. Remember that A didn’t start

Icons don’t have to make sense if people can learn them. I think people are being way to hung up on things being too skeuomorphic. Remember that A didn’t start as an A, it started as a sign for ox. That’s right, our writing system had skeuomorphic origins. Someone growing up today might not know what a handset it, but I’m pretty sure they recognize the handset icon. This is true for a lot of stuff in our culture (think of non-textual road signs).