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Unrelated, I'm looking for a "Save File" icon that doesn't use a floppy disk. Does anybody here have any good ideas?

Downwards arrow towards a disk: https://imgur.com/a/dMrixoi

Thanks, but the problem is: these days most users don't know what a disk looks like anymore.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still priming the responses. If the interest is in drawing a truly 'scientific' result, the hypothesis/wanted-conclusion shouldn't be in the prompt used on participants.

I think the point was that the fault may lie in the poster on HN and not the author of the survey, provided they're separate individuals.

Sure - either way it's not a "fair" survey. If I were making this survey trying to be scientific and somebody posted it to HN with this title I would be quite upset at them for priming a large number of my participants.

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Truth! Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be. If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is. If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. If you want something t…

what about calling the database app "database"

which database app?

Re: AWS icon quiz

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post #53

Truth! Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be. If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is. If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. If you want something t…

> If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. Please no. The unique AWS product names while occasionally inconvenient mean that you can at least find relevant information about them when searching, and you know that someone isn't confusing an AWS product with another platform or another style of deploymen…

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Re: AWS icon quiz

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Aws feels like it was built by a bunch of siloed teams. There's a lot of design inconsistency I notice every time I'm in the console. For example, deleting entities is never consistent. Some just do it, some ask you to type in the name, some as you to type "delete me". Some entities have a name and a description field that are immutable on creation, even though they also have a unique id. I now have drop downs everyw…

Console is just for checking stuff. Real infra is managed by APIs.

Not every service has an API, especially new ones. They tend to launch things console first. Look at Alexa. It took over a year to get API, and it still doesn't have CloudFormation support.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#148
> how well do you actually know AWS? How many AWS icons can you correctly identify?

I know this is mostly for fun, but that is a wildly faulty premise.

Re: AWS icon quiz

#149
I've always had issues telling the icons apart, but in fairness the recent UI updates have already been phasing out the icons. They're no longer on the management console home page, and they've been replaced with much improved category icons.

Re: AWS icon quiz

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post #85

Unrelated, I'm looking for a "Save File" icon that doesn't use a floppy disk. Does anybody here have any good ideas?

I've seen icons out in the wild of container-ish shapes (box, etc) with an arrow pointing into the container. Seems to work well enough.
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