我理解您的意思。我刚刚快速搜索了一下,例如找到了 保存图标 这个页面。所以传统上这是已经确立的,你可以说“用户只需要像学习词汇一样去学会它”。
但是:我曾经在西非为上一代数码相机举办过培训:那里有很多极度简化的图标,而它们所代表的“底层现实”在这里并不存在:郁金香、冷杉树、山脉、放大镜、顶部带有胶片卷轴的传统胶片相机等等。面对我们的团队时,我注意到我们在解释每个图标及其功能时都遇到了困难。
因此,对于所有从未亲手拿过软盘的人来说,软盘的主要问题是它完全抽象。每个图标都不同,有些设计得还不正确。如果你不知道顶部(有时底部)那个奇怪的形状曾经是一个金属滑块盖,另一个主要元素曾经是一个纸质标签,而被切掉的角字面意义上就是一个缺失的角,那么学习这种词汇就非常困难。就像汉字一样。对我来说,让我们的年轻人和非洲人接触那些对我们中的一些人来说(基于我们的生活经验)非常直观,但对它们来说却非常抽象的符号,感觉是“不公平”的。
我对现代“保存图标”的建议:
使用最通用的容器符号,例如一个圆圈(它可以代表“容器”、碗、旋转的硬盘、袋子、非洲谷物容器),并将一个箭头指向这个容器内部。

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有一个相关的符号/图标,关于一个直立的方形门和一个向外指的箭头,这通常意味着离开或退出。
类似地,对于进入某物,也是用一个直立的方形门。这就是为什么我建议为存储使用圆形符号,以免与门混淆,也不与用户进入或退出混淆。
我刚刚看了一下我的 PT9,心想“天哪”。如果我们考虑“世界”范围,我们可能会考虑为下一代重新设计。
我们地区的人可能在一些老动作电影中见过一些双筒望远镜,但他们从未亲手拿过。PT 的双筒望远镜图标不太美观。
这里的人知道并使用剪刀,以及带有标签的文件夹用于文档。他们不使用写字板,但人口中有一小部分人见过。
我自己不得不学习“源语言”的符号。
PT 本身的图标就是抽象的。这里几十年来没有人用真正的鸟羽毛写过任何东西。我会说 99% 的人口不知道人们曾经用羽毛写字。所以,有一根羽毛,没有从它那里写出任何“输出”,在绿色圆圈底部写字,对我来说非常迷人,但对我的团队来说并没有传达任何信息。
我不想听起来很消极。多年来我学会了所有这些符号;这很容易,因为我使用其中大多数东西,甚至包括写字板。我真的很喜欢 PT,真的。我只是在抛出想法(这是我的人生使命),并说这并不紧急。但我们可以考虑为“世界”范围在下一个主要版本中进行重新设计,或者我们需要将图标词汇学习纳入 PT 培训。希望这对您有帮助(hth)
I read you. I just did a quick search and found for example icons for save this page. So traditionally it is established, and you could say “users just have to learn it like vocabulary”.
But: I have once held training in West Africa for an earlier generation of digital cameras: There you have plenty extremely condensed icons, where the “underlying reality” does not exist here: tulips, fir-trees, a mountain-range, magnifying lenses, traditional film-cameras with film-spools on top etc etc. And facing our team, I noticed how we struggled to explain each icon and its function.
So the main problem with the floppy disk, for all those who never held one in their hands, is that it is totally abstract. Each icon is different and some are wrongly designed. And if you do not know that the weird shape on top (and sometimes on bottom) used to be a metal slider-cover-thingy and that the other main element used to be a paper-lable and that the cut-off corner was litterally a missing corner, then it is very hard to learn this vocabulary. Like a Chinese character. It feels “unfair” to me, to expose our youth and our Africans to symbols that are totally obvious for some of us, from our life, and so abstract for them.
My recommendation for a modern “save icon”:
Use the most generic symbol of a container, for example a circle (which could represent a “container”, a bowl, a spinning hdd, a sack, an african grain-container) and place an arrow going into this container.

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There is a related symbol/icon about a square upright door and an arrow going out-of-it which often means to leave or to quit.
And similar for entering into something, again with a square upright door. This is why I propose a round symbol for the storage to not confuse with doors and not confuse with the user entering or quitting.
I have just had a look at my PT9 and I went “oh dear”. If we think “world”, then we might consider a re-design for a next generation.
People in our region have possibly seen some binoculars in some old action movies, but they have never held any in their hands. The PT icon for binoculars is not very pretty.
People here do know and use scissors, and paper-folders with tabs for documents. They do not use clip-boards but a fraction of the population will have seen some.
I myself had to learn the symbol for “source languages”.
The very icon for PT is abstract. Nobody here has ever written anything with an actual bird-feather in decades. I would say 99% of the population are unaware that people used to write with feathers. So having a feather without any written “output” from it, writing in the bottom of a green-circle is very charming to me, but does not communicate anything to my team.
I do not want to sound negative. I learnt all those symbols over the years; was easy because I use most of those things, even clip-boards. I love PT, really do. I am just throwing ideas (that is my calling in life) and say it is not urgent. But either we could consider a re-design for “world” for the next main version or we need to include icon-vocabulary-learning into the PT training. hth