: How would you represent i/o as an icon? This has caused me to lose sleep and not get my weekly pat in the back from my boss. We have a web hosting related product that consists of database,

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This has caused me to lose sleep and not get my weekly pat in the back from my boss.

We have a web hosting related product that consists of database, bandwidth and I/O sub-products.

To represent the database, I'm using a "three ringed" database tower. To represent the bandwidth, I'm using a chart-like graph. In my particular case, "bandwidth" really refers to data usage and I/O refers to the way we speed up disk performance, using specific drives and working with the Linux kernel.

Those seem to work for 85% of the people to whom I have access.

But what in the world does one use to represent I/O?

Showing the small letters i/o has been rejected, because it's too obvious. Seriously.

Any other ideas or suggestions from anyone?

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@Tiffany317

There really should be a standard icon for IOPS or io, but I don't know of one.

I really like this arrow (the door is not relevant) thenounproject.com/term/out/6919/
Maybe if you combined the arrows from that image and this one thenounproject.com/term/in/6920/
You'll either get a weird optical illustion or a great io icon.

Good luck! ...and let us know what you end up using.

UPDATE: I tried the arrows above, it looked terrible and confusing.

But then I came up with this:

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@Si6392903

How about this?

The input goes in, and the output comes out :)

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@Kaufman565

I/O means input-output, right? Something that is traditionally conceptualised using flow diagrams?

So why not, a box subtly styled to vaguely resemble your company's products (e.g vent-like lines on the edges? plastic/brushed aluminium texture?), a jagged electricity-like or curly cable-like arrow from the left going in, and the same arrow on the right going out.

So it's primarily an icon that resembles a flow chart, using unobtrusive subtle secondary details (e.g. texture) to suggest electrical signals going into then out of a desirable-looking technology box.

Personally I'd then try to lightly emboss 'I/O' into the box, like it's engraved into the physical box, just to make the communication totally explicit. I'm guessing when they say "too obvious" they aren't actually insane haters of good communication, I'd guess they just want something that looks and feels more like a pictoral icon and they're just articulating this thought in a clumsy way.

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@Deb5748823

How about this, adding also an out arrow for "output"

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@LarsenBagley460

Why not use a male plug and female socket? Like a USB plug and USB port.

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