Symbolism

[egrets@lemmy.world]

I've said it once zero times and I'll say it again. Far-future hypothetical space aliens should RTFM.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven't looked that way in 25+ years.

[infynis@midwest.social]

[pfm@scribe.disroot.org]

Do you imagine how wonderful Lemme could be if everyone drafted theirs posts on paper, prior to clicking "Send"?

[eheran@lemmy.world]

How is the nuclear sign in any way universally understandable? It is properly by learning it's meaning.

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

I've seen a growing number of programs that use an arrow pointing towards a picture of a computer or hard drive for "save* and an arrow pointing away from it for "load" and I feel like that's very graceful skeuomorph to shift to that might hold up for longer (although it breaks if it's talking about cloud save, but replace the picture of a computer with picture of a cloud and you're back in business I suppose)

[tempermentalanomaly@lemmy.world]

I had to explain the save button to my 9 year old about a week ago. And then I found myself explaining what a floppy disk was. Tonight I'll ask him if he knows what that is a picture of. I'll be impressed if he remembers. If he fails the check, imma gonna launch into a lecture on boot disks, games, and batch files. Wish me luck!

[tenppa@sopuli.xyz]

I've seen those being used as download and upload but not for saving.

[ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The design process is actually very interesting to read about and the intentionality (whether you think it’s effective or not) is essentially the scenario that if someone were to stumble across it in 10,000 years they would recognize it is dangerous and leave it alone

That said you are probably right given there already have been a few notable incidents where people have broken into discarded medical equipment and stolen radioactive sources, poisoning dozens of people in the process

[chainweasel@lemmy.world]

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

The idea that human society will make it to 4269 as well as the old Twitter logo at the bottom really date this one.

[tiramichu@lemm.ee]

It's intended to visually represent an atom with radiation emitting away from it.

So it's not univeral in the sense that anyone could recognise it, but in the sense that anyone who knows about what radiation is might have a clue - be them people now, or some future civilisation, or aliens. It's a depiction of what is going on.

The symbol also uses elements of graphic design that make it feel unwelcoming and hostile even if you have no understanding at all. It's a design that clearly telegraphs "this is not a good thing"

Similar for the biohazard sign, which in its strange curves and spines looks almost "mutated"

[sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml]

The idea of hover cars have always been so silly to me. Yes let's waste energy on counteracting gravity instead of just using a wheel lmao

[gil2455526@lemmy.eco.br]

Maybe, just maybe, someday it gets updated to an SD Card.

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

They're good for rough terrain, so ironically a tractor is one of the less silly things to make hover

[iceman@lemmy.world]

And designing your hover trtactor in the style of 2000 tractors is as much symbolism as the floppy disc.icon.

[deafboy@lemmy.world]

I respect all the science and research in hostile design, but then I rember the chilli peppers, just trying to keep safe from mamals by simulating the feeling of fire in their mouths...

[deafboy@lemmy.world]

.not_porn

[crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Also tyres destroy the crop they drive over

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

Not a d scimmy?