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Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children by xahrepap on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:20PM (#20843601)
> have to click on an octagon with a square inside it. No idea how I'm supposed to associate that with "home" or "back" or any of the verbs I could think of.

I believe it's "Stop". Stop sign and the square is the stop symbol common for media.

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Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children by intertextuality on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:27PM (#20844462)
Random or ambiguous icons without text is a huge UX failure. You can’t assume people will know what it means aside from very obvious ones like the floppy disk save icon.
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Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children by spockz on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:27AM (#20844751)
The floppy disk save icon might be “very obvious” to you. But how is a kid of this era who has never seen a 3.5” floppy disk supposed to know that that means save?
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Re:Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children by intertextuality on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:42AM (#20844795)
Because every other website uses that or the down arrow. It can be not only objects seen in real life but also icons consistent with other sites.

Anecdotally I’ve never seen a floppy disk in real life.

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