Comments on: Visual Identity Using Icons: The Floppy Disk Save Button https://6sigma.com/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:56:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Duke Ganote https://6sigma.com/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity/#comment-24924 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:12:40 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/455/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity#comment-24924 Maybe I’m smarter than a 5th grader… but I’m obviously also a lot older.

]]> By: Floppy fan https://6sigma.com/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity/#comment-24923 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:13:31 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/455/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity#comment-24923 I wrote about this recently too:
http://www.bloglobyte.com/vintage-computing/the-floppy-is-actually-dead-but-hasnt-really-gone-away/

And as Mark said – “what *should* the icon be?”.

Maybe there shouldn’t be an icon.

And while we’re at it, I’m ready to complain about the new “stop” icon in the latest version of IE. The “X” was used as “close” then an “x” with a curved tapered corner came to mean delete. And now they overloaded the straight cross with “stop”. Ugh!

]]> By: Mark Rosenthal https://6sigma.com/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity/#comment-24922 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:58:52 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/455/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity#comment-24922 Wow. Yeah. She has never seen a typewriter, doesn’t know what “carriage return” means, and although she might say “dial the number” would likely have no idea how to actually operate a phone with a dial.

Information without context to the target audience is just noise, and the noise can even obscure the intended message.

What is even more interesting is that, perhaps, it shows just a little of the aging going in inside Microsoft itself. No one there questioned the icon.

Question: Given that “Save” is now more abstract than physical, what SHOULD the icon look like?

]]> By: Honor Gunday https://6sigma.com/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity/#comment-24921 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:06:40 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/455/representing-an-idea-with-visual-identity#comment-24921 A well documented observation! and a really really interesting one. When thinking about usability we think about making the fonts bigger for the older crowd but never thought about the youngest users who are making their steps into the online world..

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