You may make the distinction between saving a document and downloading a document, but most people don’t pay anywhere near that amount of attention, and don’t care about specifics.
Covering “Most people” but not all cases is where most software goes awry. We should probably try to avoid that for something as universal as saving a file.
One could make the same argument about creating a more complicated solution when a simple one solves it for 99% of users. Especially when the remaining 1% will know the difference based on what they’re doing, regardless of the icon used.
(See, I can simplify stuff too. Now there’s a chance that a certain amount of people are wondering if I’m having a stroke instead of linking it to a well-known English saying.
That’s why you’re not actually “simplifying” anything.)
Covering “Most people” but not all cases is where most software goes awry. We should probably try to avoid that for something as universal as saving a file.
One could make the same argument about creating a more complicated solution when a simple one solves it for 99% of users. Especially when the remaining 1% will know the difference based on what they’re doing, regardless of the icon used.
You could make that argument, but you’d be wrong.
I really shouldn’t have to keep explaining why.
Something something assumptions, asses, etc.
(See, I can simplify stuff too. Now there’s a chance that a certain amount of people are wondering if I’m having a stroke instead of linking it to a well-known English saying.
That’s why you’re not actually “simplifying” anything.)