March 11th, 2009
Get with the times; update the icons
Something I saw after reading my regular stream of blogs, was a post which pointed out the “Save” icon in many of the Office products and Windows editions. The vast majority of us wouldn’t notice it as it’s an integral part of our user experience, but why on earth do we still have a floppy disk?
From the Microsoft UK Schools News blog:
Last month, when my youngest daughter was doing a PowerPoint for school, here first question to me was “Dad, can I borrow a memory stick?”. She knew that was the way that you carry files around.
Neither of my children have ever seen a floppy disk. And I realised this last week, when one of them pointed to the icons in Word and said “What’s that icon Dad?”. Good question, which turned into a history lesson!
Made me chuckle anyway.
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