IMO, icons are useful because they're constant symbols we can associate with different actions. In that sense, the floppy is very appropriate simply because it is nearly universal. Never once in my life have I seen an interface with unfamiliar icons (no text at all) and been able to figure out what it does (I'm looking at you, Mac OS). I think even if you come up with an image that is more true to what is actually going on, such as a picture of a hard drive, you'll cause far more confusion than if you left it alone. Even if people such as myself can identify the icon as a hard drive, that doesn't tell us what you're going to do, it just means a hard drive is somehow involved...

为什么我们需要“保存”功能?我写的任何东西都应该被自动保存，事实上Microsoft Word已经做到了这一点——如果它崩溃了，而且还没有保存，你的数据仍然是可以恢复的。谷歌自动保存草案。为什么我们还在使用“保存”范式?

IMO, icons are useful because they're constant symbols we can associate with different actions. In that sense, the floppy is very appropriate simply because it is nearly universal. Never once in my life have I seen an interface with unfamiliar icons (no text at all) and been able to figure out what it does (I'm looking at you, Mac OS). I think even if you come up with an image that is more true to what is actually going on, such as a picture of a hard drive, you'll cause far more confusion than if you left it alone. Even if people such as myself can identify the icon as a hard drive, that doesn't tell us what you're going to do, it just means a hard drive is somehow involved...

不幸的是，这个软盘图标已经成为保存文档的通用符号。它甚至被用在微软Word 2007中，几乎原封不动。以任何方式更改它，都可能使用户无法将其识别为保存符号。

好问题。在我经常使用的4台电脑中，只有1台有3.5英寸的硬盘。这是一种过时的技术，就我个人而言，我不介意看到它以图标的形式被取代。

可能的替代:

保险库图标。易于辨认，象征着节约。 光盘符号。更现代，但很快就会过时。 ?？?

我对这里的大多数回复感到惊讶。普遍的共识似乎是“继续使用软盘，因为这是一直以来的做法。”从什么时候开始，程序员的心态是遵循其他人的理想?仅仅因为“这是它一直以来的方式”而做某事不是借口，尤其是对程序员来说。

使用包含两个字符的图标:

:w