Let's Ask if Teenagers Understand the Floppy Disk (and other icons)
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DO PEOPLE BORN AFTER OLD TECH IS RETIRED UNDERSTAND IT? LET’S ASK THEM. LIS PARDI @LISPARDI
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DO PEOPLE BORN AFTER
OLD TECH IS RETIRED
UNDERSTAND IT?
LET’S ASK THEM.
LIS PARDI
@LISPARDI
Lis icon designed by Jay Bellew
HI. I’M LIS.
Save designed by Cris Dobbins from The Noun Project
I DEFEND THE FLOPPY DISK...
Download designed by Michael Zenaty from The Noun Project
…AGAINST THIS ICON, WHICH INSTRUCTS YOU
TO PUT YOUR FILE IN HALF A BOX.
Students designed by Piotrek Chuchla from The Noun Project
PEOPLE THINK STUDENTS DON’T KNOW THE
FLOPPY DISK, SO I ASKED OVER 500 HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS ABOUT THAT AND 10
OTHER ICONS.
1. What is this a picture of?
2. What does this represent on a computer or phone?
EACH RESPONDENT ANSWERED TWO
QUESTIONS. BELOW ARE THE RESULTS:
Magnifying
Glass 95%
Other 5%
What does it
represent?
Search
71%
Other 2%
Search/Zoom 3%
Zoom 24%
What is this?
Pencil 97%
No guess
2%
Pen 1%Draw 13%
No guess 17%
Edit/Write 7%
Draw/Edit 2%
Note 2%
Pencil 2%
Draw/Write 2%
New 2%
Type 2%
Other 5%
Write 24%
Edit 22%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Tape/Rec
ording
53%
No
gues
s
32%
Voicemail 5%Glasses 1%
Phone 2%
Spaghetti
(and similar) 2%Other 2%
Voice-
49%
No
gues
s
30%
Recording/Voicemail 1%
Recording 12%
Video 2%
Message 1%
Other 5%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Envelope
95%
Email 2%
Other 3%
61%
Mail 12%
Mail/Message 2%
Email/Message 10%
Message 9%
Send 3%
Other 3%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Phone 99%
Call 1%
Call/Dialer
95%
Other 5%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Folder
88%
Other 3%
File 9%
Folder
76%
Directory 2%
File 10%
File/Folder 2%
Save 2%
Open 2%
Other 6%
What does it
represent?What is this?
ID
Card
39%Rolodex 8%
No guess 10%
Address Book 7%
Contact Card 18%
Photo ID 6%
Contact 4%Other 8%
Contacts
63%
Profile 13%
No Guess 18%
Address Book 2%
Other 4%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Floppy
Disk 91%
Hard drive 2%
Flash/SD/
Memory card 2%
No guess 3%
Other 2%
Save 91%
No guess 3%
Memory 1%Storage 2%
Other 3%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Trash 98%
Other 2%
Delete
39%Delete/
Recycle 4%
Trash
40%
Delete/Trash 7%
Recycle Bin 8%
Other 2%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Gear 95%
Settings 3%
Other 2%
Settings
98%
Other 2%
What does it
represent?What is this?
Chain
77%
Paperclip 9%
Link 6%
No guess 6%
Other 2%
Link
54%
Connection 6%
Attachment 11%Attachment/Link 2%
Share 3%
No guess 15%
Other 9%
What does it
represent?What is this?
