Is the disk icon for save already archaic?
A few weeks ago one of the nerds tweeted about using the disk icon for save, and wondered when that iconography would be too dated (and if I could find the original tweet I would give proper attribution but trying to find a tweet in Twitter is a pointless waste of time).
Anyway, according to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber it already is. According to the Mad Mac Maven, Gruber has made a mistake. Again, this is one of those posts where the comments are rife with nerdery and user experience pedantry (you have no idea how happy I am that that’s an actual word). Who doesn’t love a nerdery pedant? Nobody, that’s who.
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Crystal Kempen on May 18th, 2010
Try this to help you find tweets:
http://topsy.com/s/disk+icon+for+save/tweet?window=m
Maybe you will see the person you were thinking of? I just discovered this tool myself and am not sure of it’s accuracy. All though if someone has their tweets set to privet, this probably wont work.
room34 on May 23rd, 2010
I’ve been on the fence about this issue myself for a while. In the latest round of interface refinements in the CMS I built, I switched from a floppy disk icon to one that looks more like a hard disk with an arrow pointing at it. (I’m using the Tango icon set — http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library )
Anyway… I guess I still feel like the floppy disk is the best icon for the job, even though I just stopped using it. Gruber must be getting to me. But I just thought of a good counterargument: take a look at the icon for the Phone app on the iPhone. Anyone who’s never used a floppy disk has DEFINITELY never used one of those old AT&T phones.