我理解您的意思。我剛做了個快速搜尋,例如找到了 儲存圖示 這個頁面。所以傳統上這已經確立了,您可以說「使用者必須像學詞彙一樣去學習它」。
但是:我曾在西非為上一代數位相機舉辦過培訓:那裡有很多極度簡化的圖示,而它們所代表的「底層現實」在這裡並不存在:鬱金香、冷杉樹、山脈、放大鏡、頂部帶有膠片捲軸的傳統膠片相機等等。面對我們的團隊時,我注意到我們費盡力氣去解釋每個圖示及其功能。
因此,對於所有從未親手拿過軟碟的人來說,軟碟的主要問題在於它完全是抽象的。每個圖示都不同,有些設計得還不對。如果你不知道頂部(有時底部)那個奇怪的形狀曾經是一個金屬滑蓋裝置,另一個主要元素曾經是紙標籤,而被切掉的角字面意義上就是缺了一個角,那麼要學習這個詞彙就非常困難。就像漢字一樣。我覺得這很「不公平」,讓我們年輕一代和非洲人接觸到那些對我們某些人來說從生活中顯而易見,但對他們來說卻極為抽象的符號。
我對現代「儲存圖示」的建議:
使用最通用的容器符號,例如一個圓形(它可以代表「容器」、碗、旋轉的硬碟、袋子、非洲穀物容器),並放置一個指向該容器內部的箭頭。

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有一個相關的符號/圖示,關於一個直立的方形門和一個從中出來的箭頭,這通常意味著離開或退出。
類似地,進入某物也使用直立的方形門。這就是為什麼我建議使用圓形符號來表示儲存,以免與門混淆,也避免與使用者進入或退出混淆。
我剛看了一眼我的 PT9,心想「天哪」。如果我們考慮「全球」範圍,我們或許應該考慮為下一代重新設計。
我們地區的人可能在一些老動作電影中見過一些雙筒望遠鏡,但他們從未親手拿過。PT 的雙筒望遠鏡圖示不太美觀。
這裡的人認識並使用剪刀,以及帶有標籤的文件資料夾。他們不使用剪貼板,但有一部分人口見過。
我自己也必須學習「源語言」的符號。
PT 本身的圖示就是抽象的。這裡沒有人幾十年來用過真正的羽毛筆寫字。我會說 99% 的人口不知道人們曾經用羽毛筆寫字。所以,有一支羽毛筆,沒有從中寫出的任何「輸出」,在綠色圓圈的底部寫字,這對我來說很迷人,但對我的團隊來說什麼也傳達不了。
我不想聽起來很消極。多年來我學會了這些符號;這很容易,因為我使用其中大多數東西,甚至包括剪貼板。我真的很愛 PT。我只是在拋出想法(這是我在生命中的呼召),並說這不急。但我們要嘛考慮為「全球」範圍在下一個主要版本中重新設計,要嘛需要在 PT 培訓中納入圖示詞彙學習。希望這對您有幫助
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