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Will computers ever stop using disk imagery to mean save?
With floppy disks barely even manufactured any longer and optical media on its way out, has the 3½ disk imagery become a modern day hieroglyphic?
Have any designers or software companies tried to diverge from this image with a different icon? How have they succeeded or failed?
Feel free to answer this question with pictures.
Have any designers or software companies tried to diverge from this image with a different icon? How have they succeeded or failed?
Feel free to answer this question with pictures.
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In fact the floppy disk being outdated makes the icon even more relevant! Think about it. Imagine if the save icon was CD. They're relevant aren't they?
When floppy disks were dominant in the 1990s, we had cds and floppy disks in around equal measure. We used CD-ROMs for programs, and floppy disks for saving our work on. When CD-R and CD-RW became more popular, as they were expensive, their icon was used for burning, whilst the floppy disk was still for saving.
Could you imagine the confusion today, if all save icons were converted to CDs? "There's no CD in my computer" people would scream.
The floppy disk is more appropriate as a save icon, now that they're not around, because people who don't know what one is, will recognise or see them as a mythical disk cartridge, which has connotations to saving.
Look at it! Everything about it, screams "save".
Would you rather a cloud icon be used instead? Well storing things on our computer is in decline, as we have our music and work documents stored and edited in the cloud, right? Imagine the confusion that would cause.
So I suppose that you prefer the cloud, don't you? The OP does as it's relevant to how people save stuff today.
So let's put that idea to the test, shall we?
That's what I thought!