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Similar is the save icon, though for a different reason. It conveys its function well, but one first needs to know what a floppy disk even is!




Nah, people especially younger ones associate the floppy disk with the save button

A lot of apps people use these days are cloud-first and automatically save all the time, so there's not even a save button to have a floppy icon for! The icon to say that it's synced looks like a cloud, and if you're using a web browser it'll probably have a Download button with a download icon. No floppy disks in sight.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's computer users out there that wouldn't recognise the "save icon".

RIP in peace


I disagree. Not all it's "autosave on cloud", and some apps keeps having an explicit save something button or option.

I recently had a discussion about replacing the "save icon" (IE. the old floppy disk icon) for an icon with an arrow pointing down, for a button that saves (don't download!) a custom query of the user in the system. Perhaps it could be replaced with another icon, but not by someone that everyone would think is "Download".


they think it's a soda vending machine

My daughter understood what the Chrome icon was for before she could even spell ‘Chrome’.



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