How about the Save icon? It's often still a 3.25" floppy disk, which > probably befuddles the heck out of anyone born after, say 1985. :)
A few years ago, when I was still a teacher, our school had PCs that used floppy disks. It was really nice to hold up a floppy disk as a visual reference for saving. Those kids I taught were born in 1995. Moving to Palo Alto definitely opened my eyes to the differences in how people view technology here and how they see it in a rural border town. Here people Twitter rather than text message, assuming that everyone has an iPhone or n95. But you're right Dan, the floppy disk is outdated. The more I try to come up with a visual model for 'save' the more I think about synapses in a brain, firing away. Perhaps in the future, when the documents we make find and create their own parallels between eachother, the icon for save could be a stylized neuron, firing on use. Or maybe we could just think 'save' and do away with icons altogether. -Abi Jones ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
