Suggest a replacement for the save/floppy disk icon

[mid_gen]

It's already been replaced with a cloud icon and upwards arrow in some places....which makes sense as much of the time that's what you're doing now, syncing changes to a cloud service, rather than saving to local physical media.

 

[Armageus]

Do we even need a save icon nowadays? Do we even need explicit saves, when things like google docs / apple / xyz stuff autosaves as you type anyway (and has full version control etc?)?

You could replace the floppy disk with a SD Card, flash drive or even the cloud, and most would know what it means, but arguably all of those will also be technological relics at some point

 

[james.miller]

arrow pointing to a folder is the most obvious to me.

 

[Maccy]

I like the idea of a tressure chest icon.

 

[Hagar]

Ctrl + S

 

[GGizmo]

A cassette tape.

 

[Thekwango]

i've decided, the icon for saving needs to be a single boob......why? because this is a tit of a thread

 

[Mysterae_]

For retro vibes how about a piggybank or I have seen a bank vault before.

A hard drive or memory chip seems the obvious choice though!

 

[Roar87]

A lot of younger people have no idea what it is. I asked a work experience girl what she thought it was and she said a SIM card. It's completely irrelevant to today's userbase.

Is today's userbase not also a lot of people who did use floppy discs? You only need to be 30+

 

[div0]

arrow pointing to a folder is the most obvious to me.

* Devil's advocate *

You mean a folder icon for a physical folder that no one uses any more?

 

[dlockers]

So you want to make it even more inconsistent by trying to push a new symbol?

It's not about some people recognise it or not, when you try to introduce a new symbol, NOBODY will recognise it. As opposed to at least some people recognise a disc icon. See where i am getting at?

You are having to educate the ENTIRE world of a new symbol, and trying to push that everywhere, as opposed to some people this old symbol.

This is the general logic of standards organisations though isn't it lol.

 

[dlockers]

For retro vibes how about a piggybank or I have seen a bank vault before.

A hard drive or memory chip seems the obvious choice though!

Haven't seen cash in years so already redundant

 

[Raymond Lin]

How about a drawing of Ironman doing the snap with the infinity glove to signify saving the universe? Got to be Ironman though, not Thanos.

Meta huh?

 

[ianh]

I would guess that, of the two choices -

1. Change the SAVE symbol universally across every item everywhere in the world that uses it, or

2. Tell kids what the SAVE Icon is and what it does when they are primary school ages (most kids by that age use tablets, phones, internet etc),

Option 2 is the one which makes most sense.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Update it to a zip drive image. 100Mb obviously.

 

[Hades]

And as for the envelope icon for email...

 

[touch]

And as for the envelope icon for email...

Magnifying glass, paperclip, flip calendar, drawing pin, camera.
When was the last time you used any of these physical items that icons are based on?

 

[Wizzkidy]

Just change the disk icon to an icon with the word save in it

 

[Efour]

what about a solid black Tetraskelion over a solid white circle with a nice red background..... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooo

 

[Lysander]

what about a solid black Tetraskelion over a solid white circle with a nice red background..... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooo

I'm surprised it took this long for Nazism to make it into the thread. Mind you, I was going to mention it back on page 1 but refrained.