Suggest a replacement for the save/floppy disk icon

Its a symbol everyone recognises if you change it you're going to create confusion I've even seen gen z'ers who have no idea what a floppy disc is but they recognise the save symbol as... a save symbol
 
Just leave it as is. Whether anyone recognises if for it being a floppy disk is irrelevant, Its whether people recognise it for being the save icon … which the vast majority do … so don’t change it.

And for those that don’t know it to be the save icon … learn it to be the save icon.
 
Thekwango said:
it also has the words 'Decline' or 'Accept' - so pretty obvious :p
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Save icons typically a tooltip when you hover over them that says what it does too.

It doesn't need updating. Arguably now that floppies are largely extinct in the wild there's even less reason to change it, because there is less opportunity for confusion (i.e. people won't be sat there thinking "hmm, I need to a get a floppy disk, cos that's where it's going to save it to").

What about the "Settings" icon, that is typically represented by a cog? A cog is arguably even more out of date than a floppy disk, I mean when did anyone last change the settings on a computer by adjusting a cog? The point is people associate that icon with "Settings", so it makes sense to keep using it.
 
Lysander said:
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.
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Did she know it was a save icon? If so, it's working just fine as a symbol for a save icon.

The point of a symbol is that the meaning is known. Which is the case for the save symbol. It doesn't have to be an accurate pictorial representation of the thing it refers to, which will continue to change anyway. Should we have different save symbols for different storage media? How should the symbols for future storage media be decided upon?

The symbol for a warning message is a yellow triangle. How is that an accurate pictorial representation of a warning? It isn't and there's no reason why it should be because a symbol doesn't have to be an accurate pictorial representation of the thing.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
HangTime said:
What about the "Settings" icon, that is typically represented by a cog? A cog is arguably even more out of date than a floppy disk, I mean when did anyone last change the settings on a computer by adjusting a cog? The point is people associate that icon with "Settings", so it makes sense to keep using it.
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A sensible comment? In my thread?
 
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