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Ask Soylent: Which Iconograpy Represents 'Save' in the Modern World?

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-floppy-drive-still-works dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Our office recently updated to a new version of the Office Suite, and it still has an icon in the upper-left corner to perform the 'Save' function. Floppy drives have not been in use for years, and many children would not recognize a 3.5 inch floppy disk on sight. Programs have used this icon for years, because we have yet to find a suitable replacement. The CD/DVD can no longer represent saving, because they have come and gone. Even moving to the more abstract Piggy Bank icon would not work, because they are seldom used in the modern age. A USB Key icon may represent saving in some form, but the may not be around much longer if another medium gains favor. Does this mean that the venerable 3.5 inch Floppy will represent saving information to future generations, or should it be replaced by a different symbol?

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  • (Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday December 20 2016, @10:48AM

    by theluggage (1797) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @10:48AM (#443679)

    Does this mean that the venerable 3.5 inch Floppy will represent saving information to future generations, or should it be replaced by a different symbol?

    The fact that you're asking this years after the floppy disappeared from the mainstream is pretty good evidence that the symbol is now firmly associated with "save" and that nobody has come up with a good alternative.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Francis on Tuesday December 20 2016, @11:32AM

    by Francis (5544) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @11:32AM (#443693)

    Nonsense, if MS and Mozilla have taught us anything is that it's never too late to take a perfectly serviceable UI and bollocks it up because that's the trendy thing to do. Never mind if it looks like shit, introduces a radical and incompatible paradigm and means that you have to relearn the entire UI without any meaningful gain.

    If you don't like it, then you're clearly an old fogey and it's not the fact that the change sucks the llama's dick.