Just food for thought.

Do we actually need to “update” the icon? It’s a well established, universally understood icon, one that even people who don’t know what a floppy disk is get exposed to it since they start using computers.

To show the ubiquity of this icon you just need to do a “save icon” search. There’s no conflict or ambiguity, all images presented are the floopy disk, and there are few icons that are represented so universally as this one.

There are plenty of icons that need to be memorised instead of understood, as many of them at first glance don’t mean anything. Power and Bluetooth come to mind, you don’t look at them and go “Ah, that makes sense”, their shape is non-intuitive and you associate it with it’s disclosed behaviour once you click it.

I’ve heard this before and I think we’re trying to find a solution for a non-existent problem. The save icon is fine, and even if it means nothing for this generation they will find out what it does and simply get used to it.