# Should attaching an image be more obvious?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-attaching-an-image-be-more-obvious/31315
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2015年七月22日 22:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-attaching-an-image-be-more-obvious/31315 "2015-07-22T22:50:36Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015年七月24日 08:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-attaching-an-image-be-more-obvious/31315/25 "2015-07-24T08:21:06Z")

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> [@steve\_pd](#):
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> Don’t get me wrong, you’re entitled to change it to any icon you want. Heck, you can use a if you so wish, but isn’t it a little bizarre to make everything else less obvious instead of engaging in a tiny bit of user education?

Well, I think he has a point, but to me it is mostly about this:

> If we decide we don’t care about teaching formatting codes, can we have a simplified, task oriented editor with **three big honking buttons instead of 11 tiny toolbar buttons?**

It is basically these two things, opposed:

**traditional formatted text editor toolbar design**

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/25b671857158b21111ab4d623983e2598ff91346.png)

**simplified task-based plain text design**

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/0/900dabfdb460c2299862fb64d74e0d4fc262ca06.png)

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