Strictly speaking save as a function is a holdover from the day that
computers were not capable of retaining a running list of all edits
and storing them in real time.
So in my mind the question is if we remove the need to save a file how
do I mark a significant point in the creation of a file?
--C
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Coryndon Luxmoore
Interaction Designer
coryndon (at) luxmoore (dot) com
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On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Den Serras wrote:
I had the same conversation with a friend just yesterday. We've seen
icons with a down arrow pointing at a hard disk or computer (which
also seems to mean export), but the best I've seen is a down arrow
pointing into a folder.
As a thought experiment, we wondered what if the world didn't have
floppies, and "save" was just invented. What would it look like? We
liked the folder/arrow idea, since it's cross-platform, or a folder
with a document going in it. Since these days files are not
associated with physical storage anywhere near as much, we thought it
might be possible to use an icon for the concept of save rather than a
symbol referencing the process of saving a file to disc. We thought of
liferings, lifeguards, hands, rescue boats, helicopters, and banks.
That led us to using the philosophy behind "save" - making
something safe - which led to bank vaults/safes, baseball home
plates, file cabinets, keys, combo locks, keyholes, doors, houses,
bank buildings, cash registers, and security images like fences,
walls, barbed wire, and castles.
I'm sure there's a lot more out there...
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