May 25, 2021 • 15M

💾 I killed the floppy disk

Computer icons and a new generation of users.

Dr. Abdullah X. Ali
 
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Do young adults recognize the objects in our computer icons? Have they used them before? What if we had young adults design the next generation of icons? Would they be better? In this episode of the UX Academy podcast, I talk about the research we did at the University of Washington studying young adults' perception of computer iconography.