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as everything goes digital, iconography becomes more difficult. if you asked people to describe the physical attributes of a phone 20 years ago, all answers would be very similar. today you would get a much broader spectrum of answers. 10 years from now there may be no consistent answer.
if we continue to use the old icons, my son will have to learn what a rotary phone looked like to understand the icon. thus, it is no longer an icon.
soon a phone will look like your mp3 player, which will look like your digital camera, which will look like your pda, which may greatly resemble your watch. what a potentially visually boring world. as a designer i find this depressing.
Posted by griff at March 21, 2002 10:57 AM