Re: [Usability] Save Icon
- From: Alan Horkan <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:38:11 +0000 (GMT)
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Manu Cornet wrote:
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:38:27 +0100
From: Manu Cornet <lmanul@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: usability@xxxxxxxxx, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Usability] Save Icon
Hi !
That's true.
But they don't think of saving as 'writing' either.
The writing part is what they've done with their
keyboard. An icon of a pen writing could be understood
to mean 'edit'.
When they save a document, they're storing /
preserving their work. Those are the things we need
to convey, which is hard as they're fairly abstract.
I agree that the pen-and-paper icon wouldn't fit...
Another idea : what about a safe (the strong kind, where people keep
very precious stuff, with a code), or something similar ?
That kind of iconography tends to be associate with encrypted documents.
I would have associated the life saver with saving but that is already
taken for help, I preferred the old question mark '?' in a speech
bubble.
- Alan
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