A hand placing a book on a shelf
Or placing something more modern on a shelf
I’d finish my idea but I’d have to charge you 50 million dollars for it so yea…
The record symbol from every phone camera
But that is for recording, not saving.
But I like the floppy disk save symbol
A PSX Memory Card, because that would be awesome.
I reject the question. That’s not a picture of a floppy disc, that is the glyph that means save
You literally called it the save symbol. And that’s what it is…100 years from now, if we’re still around and still have computers, the save icon will still be some stylized glyph based on the floppy disc
The existence of the floppy disc is already just a bit of trivia about the save icon
It’s like asking what we should change the Bluetooth symbol to? Why do you yearn for the world to burn?
An icon can be any random glyph, but it has to stay recognizable and consistent in meaning, that’s the entire concept here
Hope you are right.
But really the Save icon will become: ✨
thats’s the Google AI icon
“All your base (data) are belong to us” -Google AI
I wonder if we would would really “expect” a new safe icon. Most modern software has auto-saving. Games for example often just use a spinning circle to indicate it’s saving. Word and google docs just say “don’t worry, we’re continuously saving your work” when you hit Ctrl + S.
I imagine if you want to save something locally you have the downward arrow for downloading, or some other icon for moving and copying files.
I dont trust word to save anything if I don’t hit CTRL S
I don’t trust word to save anything even if I hit Ctrl S
Yeah and even if you save it, good fucking luck finding it again.
Even worse now that all docs are saving to “Office 365”. No you stupid bastard, I want to save the file to my hard disk on the computer I fucking own!
Bill Gates eventual tombstone.
Can’t wait to impress someone by jumping over it in one clear hop.
What a save!
Okay.
Wow!
This is the correct answer.
My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that’s what I have always read it as.
Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
That’s already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I’d expect it to bring up the connection configuration
What if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
What’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
It’s an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer
A cassette tape.
Hahahaha, dammit you win
If the floppy disk was no longer the save symbol for software, and I had to chose one, I’d chose the floppy disk symbol.
But you worded your question wisely to avoid that loophole, so I’m not sure what to use instead for an otherwise unique and ubiquitous symbol, already known as “the save file icon” for two generations that have not seen it.
While we’re at it, let’s also replace the phone icons with a rectangle, as to not confuse anyone.
Just change one pixel and call it new.
You could make it a zip drive. No one would know the difference…
I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It’s functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.
What about saving on a cloud service? Very misleading.
Up arrow on top of a cloud, I think that one is standard now
Let’s be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️
Probably an arrow pointing down inside of a circle, like the download icon. Most of the software I use just has text saying “Save file” and no icon, and I usually press control + S anyways so I don’t have much of an opinion regarding this
Probably an arrow pointing to a hard drive.
Why a hard drive? Storage is moving to solid state. That icon would also be obsolete in a few years.
Because solid state drives can look like anything but a hard drive has the distinct arm and platter.
