Thanks both. An impressive take there Ben! :-) When I coin the perfect word I'll let you know ...
Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 17 Aug 2016, at 19:25, 'Sam - MacAmbulance' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How about post-skeoumorphic if the icon relates to an outdated real-world > representation of a computer element. > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 17 Aug 2016, at 19:17, Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > With all respect to Gilly's grandson, that's not quite right. At least, the > term may have evolved to have that meaning in Sydney, but that's not how it's > used by user experience practitioners / interface designers here. > > At least in the UK/US, affordance refers to the perceivable properties of an > element, especially with respect to the actions you can take with it. (The > term is corrupted from use in other disciplines - it should really be > "perceived affordance" or similar - but I won't go into that.) > > So the icon of a floppy disk is an affordance only to the extent that we've > all been trained to recognise that clicking a button with that icon will save > our current document (even those too young to have ever used an actual floppy > disk). But the term applies equally well to any other clear and obvious > control, even if it doesn't implicitly refer to something very old (e.g. > airplane icon on the button to select airplane mode) or indeed refer to > something concrete at all (e.g. the reload icon of a circular arrow). Or > indeed to a button with the word "Save" on it. > > I don't know if there is a word with the meaning that Stephen actually wanted > - an opportunity to coin one! The nearest I can think of is "anachronistic", > but that's not quite right - there's nothing wrong with these icons, it's > just that their derivation relates to something historic. > > Let us know what you come up with.... > > Ben > > > >> On 15/08/2016 09:50, Gillian Snoxall wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> I put your question to my grandson (who was an Apple Genius in Sydney), and >> he immediately came up with “affordance” as the word you are looking for. >> Sounds crazy to me, but he insists that that is the technical term to >> describe the use of icons depicting things that no longer exist, in modern >> applications. >> >> Gilly >> >> >> >>> On 13 Aug 2016, at 15:06, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> … describe icons used in modern applications that show items that are >>> obsolete or dated and not used for the task in hand? >>> >>> >>> For example, at work we are quickly phasing out flatbed scanners and very >>> strongly encourage people to use phones and tablets to photograph documents >>> and send them to us. Our new interface has a “Send document” button which >>> shows a flatbed scanner! >>> >>> The latest MS Word (for Windows) has a floppy disc icon to click which >>> saves your work. Neither of the two guys I work with have ever seen or used >>> a 3.5” floppy disc. >>> >>> The generic icon used for a storage device is frequently a hard disc even >>> when the device has Solid State storage. >>> >>> And will the same soon apply to the icon for a camera? >>> >>> >>> Just idle Saturday wondering. >>> >>> >>> Stephen >>> >>> >>> "Technology is the knack of rearranging the world so that we don't have to >>> experience it" - Max Frisch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
