supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square299fedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down19
arrow-up1248arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square299fedilink
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down9·3 days agoThe word ‘save.’ Never understood why software moved on from words.
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoYou can read a pictogram faster than text, so you can find the button you’re looking for faster when they’re symbols once you know those symbols
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoNot having to translate symbols would be one reason.
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoYeah. Pictograms exist in part because they work in most languages
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·3 days agoThey just force their users to translate their dumb symbols they use because there are so many illiterates out there.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days ago🤔 do illiterate people even use computers? can they??
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoit’s times like these I wish I could read…😞
minus-squareQuazatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoIt’s never too late if you set your mind to it.
The word ‘save.’ Never understood why software moved on from words.
You can read a pictogram faster than text, so you can find the button you’re looking for faster when they’re symbols once you know those symbols
Not having to translate symbols would be one reason.
Yeah. Pictograms exist in part because they work in most languages
They just force their users to translate their dumb symbols they use because there are so many illiterates out there.
🤔 do illiterate people even use computers?
can they??
Look around you.
it’s times like these I wish I could read…😞
It’s never too late if you set your mind to it.
what?!