> Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?
That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.
No, that's called iconography. The reason why icons are called icons. Skeumorph means something entirely different and only tangentially related.
In the spirit of that twitter thread, though, which I feel must be stolen from someone else because it looks new and I've definitely seen it before, it's fun and exciting to ask yourself the following question though: "If I had to pictorially represent the act of saving the contents of the current document, and upon pain of death I weren't allowed depicting the floppy, how the fuck else would I do it?"
That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.
No, that's called iconography. The reason why icons are called icons. Skeumorph means something entirely different and only tangentially related.
In the spirit of that twitter thread, though, which I feel must be stolen from someone else because it looks new and I've definitely seen it before, it's fun and exciting to ask yourself the following question though: "If I had to pictorially represent the act of saving the contents of the current document, and upon pain of death I weren't allowed depicting the floppy, how the fuck else would I do it?"