You might be touching on skeuomorphs, when a modern object reflects the design of its outdated version. A modern phone that looks like a rotary phone. An LED light fixture that looks like a gas lamp. The save icon resembles a floppy disk even when saving to a solid state drive.
You might be touching on skeuomorphs, when a modern object reflects the design of its outdated version. A modern phone that looks like a rotary phone. An LED light fixture that looks like a gas lamp. The save icon resembles a floppy disk even when saving to a solid state drive.