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Closing The Book On Apple’s ‘Cheesy’ GUI Metaphors? What’s The Alternative?
Early last week, word came around about a recent Jony Ive interview wherein Apple’s design chief purportedly “winced” at the mention of his company’s reliance on digital skeuomorphs. What’s a skeuomorph, you ask? Well, if you didn’t feel like wading through the complete history at the link above, here’s the short version as it applies to Apple and iOS (via Wikipedia): [A skeuomorph] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. … [Examples include] pictures of buttons that appear to...
Published By: appadvice - Monday, 28 May, 2012
