I was viewing a PDF in google chrome and wanted to save the PDF to my local drive. Hovering over the document, a icon bar popped up. To save the PDF obviously I press the floppy disk icon, right? I used floppy disk when I was in college. I remember Apple uses it a lot in its user interface. But I can tell you that my elementary age children have never seen a floppy disk in their lives and would never have guessed the meaning of the icon.
It was more ironic to see this used in Chrome. Surely many of the young engineers at Google has never really used a floppy disk either, right? Apple is working hard to make the "Save to Disk" action unnecessary. So who is going to come up with the next great metaphor for "save" while we still need it?
The important of a good desk
I love this video. While I travel often and can work anyway, it is never quite the same as working at my two desks. I cannot yet fit my world only onto my macbook pro (virtual) screens.
Desk - Music and Sound Design from Aaron Trinder Film:Motion:Music on Vimeo.
New IKEA AMON Desk for the Office
Adding furniture to my new office space -- We need to brighten the space up a little because of the dark flooring. Since our color scheme is black+white+dashes of green, I have decided to try adding a white desk. The metalic U legs also echo our conference table -- the strut table's design. Enjoy the assembly video below: