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<div dir="ltr">  														<a href="https://blog.prototypr.io/a-better-save-icon-4d7a0436176?source=rss----eb297ea1161a---4" style="font-size:24px;color:black;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">A better save icon</a>  													</div>
<div style="margin-top:15px">  														Via <a href="https://blog.prototypr.io/?source=rss----eb297ea1161a---4" style="font-size:13px">Prototyping: From UX to Front End &mdash; Medium</a> <span style="font-size:13px">by Simon Darby</span>  													</div>
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<blockquote><p>Who wouldn’t like to be the designer of the icon that ‘saved’ the 21st century?</p></blockquote>
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*_3ihG_PMKFRk_TGX6x8rOw.png">Google Material Design Save Icon</p>
<p>The current floppy disk save icon seems so dated. Google have done a nice job of their version in Material Design, but it still echos technology from 1980.</p>
<p>Many of you reading this will never have used or even seen a real floppy disk anyway. The save icon is based on the 3½-inch microfloppy disks. The diskettes, as they were also known, were basically a thin magnetic round wafer inside a plastic shell. The microfloppy ranged from 360kb to a massive 1.44mb. That tiny size today hardly represents the concept of saving anything of value.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/958/1*QisbC3U1kuTmL4b5aoSMSg.jpeg">As an icon, it was perfect in 1980. Today, not so much.</p>
<p>So what’s a better save icon? Based on Google Ma   terial Design I pondered this. It literally needs to be truely iconic. I don’t know that any of these designs are it, but it would be nice to see some fresh thinking from designers.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*AR1FYvKURLSY1UNwj2T0cw.png"></p>
<p>This is one of those design problems that gets debated every blue moon, but so far nothing seems to be a strong contender to replace the venerable floppy disk. Yet it seems a challenge designers should take up. Who wouldn’t like to be the designer of the icon that ‘saved’ the 21st century?</p>
<p><strong>Fun fact:</strong> <em>My first laptop had no hard drive, just two floppy disk (disc) drives. One for the Microsoft OS and apps, and one for my files.</em></p>
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