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- ribit0
filing cabinet? (it was a thing we used in the 20th century, to put pieces of paper in)
- rupedixon0
it's a good question, generally we accept it as one of those interface elements that's universal, but kids these days wouldn't know what it represented. I suspect it's something that will bug icon designers for years to come.... It's challenging convention.
if they're saving onto the cloud maybe a cloud would work, but saving locally needs something that clearly represents the device or action that's happening.
A hard drive is too unrecognisable, perhaps a folder is too unspecific and could be confused with another action.
For me icons need to be understood immediately and without explanation.
- ribit0
But then in a few years you wont have to manually save at all, as we'll have constant versioning and autosave built into everything. So all you will need is icons for sending stuff somewhere.. to the cloud, or sharing, or to a specific networked device.
- in July, with Lion, actuallymonospaced
- data hording is the new frontier. http://www.youtube.c…plash
- JSK0
Regardless of what you are actually saving to a media (cloud, harddisk etc), it should be about saving that state.
I have thought about notion of time and freezing that moment in a graphic term but don't think it is permeable to our concept of physical entity (harddisk, floppy drive etc).
- plash0
is it the dated look of the floppy that is the problem?
and is it the same as if you use a cassette tape to represent audio/ mp3?i like the question you pose and i think we're on the right track in terms of brain-dump exercise. love the "jesus saves" b/c it talks directly to a demographic; which i believe is what the cassette tape/ floppy disk does. (and the religious iconography is the paramount example of this.)
- ribit0
maybe you could use concept of bookmarking/tagging the current state?
- JSK0
^That is interesting
I would think that bookmark (which derived from physical bookmark which may be no longer relevant).
I guess as physical ethos of technology gets dates, what would be a recognizable iconographic interpretation of various actions?
Bookmark, I would suspect points to a location rather then state that is being saved.
- Fax_Benson0
- safe / fridgeFax_Benson
- that doesn't say save to me. it says secure. as in your credit card number is securelvl_13
- ribit0
snapshot (polaroid?), timestamp
- lifeindev0
Like iconfinder, but without trillions of ads:
- eficks0
what about just a tick, kind of like ok and cancel. that seems to work a lot.
- animatedgif0
Down arrow into a folder for a desktop app.