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Here’s a list of icons that no longer have meaning as metaphors: floppy disks to save, clipboards to cut and paste, address books, even CC.
I especially like # 2. I teach an advanced Excel course where we discuss how and why you’d put “radio buttons” in your spreadsheet. Motivating the name gets harder every year.
Via Infectious Greed.
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Then there are metaphors that never really had any sense such as wizard in the computer sense. How on earth does a Wizard describe a series of steps in a procedure. Such procedures are more like a checklist to ensure that the proper steps are followed.
Posted by: SadButMadLad | December 20, 2012 at 03:35 PM
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Don't you think that metaphor was chosen because many people want their computer experience to make them feel like a princess in a fairy tale? You know ... everything gets taken care of for them ... and then they live happily ever after.
Posted by: Dave Tufte | December 21, 2012 at 12:46 PM