Competing icons: Import, download, and export
Problem to solve
@annabeldunstone and I just noticed that the Pajamas has the following conflicting icons:
Import and Download are almost opposite each other and should not share the same icon. On the other hand, Export and Download are very similar and we should consider making them the same component or something similar.
Proposal
- A down arrow is pretty common for download, so we should keep this as is. See Slack's download icon for example:
- A quick search of export icons seems to turn up a lot of options that are too similar to our external link icon, but there are also some that look like the Download icon. Thinking about the JTBD for this, we might get something like, "When I want to share the information available on a page within GitLab with one of my customers, I want to save a version of it locally so I can email it to them.". In this case I think both download and export serve the same purpose, so we can make a case for using the same icon (the icon above with the down arrow) for both.
- As far as import, I think we should consider something new altogether; maybe along the lines of one of the following:
Thoughts?
cc / @jeldergl @tauriedavis