August 2018
Beginner
414 pages
3h 16m
English
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Chapter #29. Don't Use Obsolete Icons
For about 20 years, the "floppy diskette" icon has meant "save" and this connection still persists in UI across desktop and web apps. It was a great visual metaphor for a long time, but things have changed and many users under the age of 20 will have never laid eyes on a floppy disk.
Other examples include old telephones with handsets, curly cords and rotary dials; radio microphones from the 1950sand reeltoreel tape recorder icons to mean "voicemail".
Ten years from now, nobody will know what any of these are
Try to think about how the visual metaphors you use will work for different age groups, cultures and languages. ...