Sentences with phrase «of skeuomorphism»

The main headset menu exists in a stark modernist room with a rumpled and totally incongruous carpet in the middle, a weird bit of skeuomorphism that's just substantial enough to feel like it ought to be personalizable.

One advantage of skeuomorphism is that it gives users some kind of reference point when switching from a physical to a digital object.

Allan Doyle, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, spoke about Quatremère de Quincy's criticism of skeuomorphism in art, while Svendsen Finne taught a brief but in - depth lesson about the divine skeuomorphic structures in the early Renaissance paintings of Piero della Francesca, and McGill doctoral candidate Jeffrey Moser discussed the patterned moldings of pre-modern Chinese ceramics.

Not exact matches

He went on to state the question posed to the day's panel, which asked «whether skeuomorphism is good design, allowing users to relate to a concrete but outmoded object with which they're familiar or whether this is a nostalgic, superfluous layer that obfuscates the inner workings of the digital.»

The session — and a decade's worth of doctoral research — was capped with a revelation from an audience member, who suggested that skeuomorphism is a natural rebellion against advances in technology.

I argue that skeuomorphism is not a typology of things, but rather an activity, and in the present - day context of new technologies and tooling, almost all materials have potential to skeuomorph, to behave as others do.

I loved Susannah Tredwell's column about skeuomorphism and how the format of the print book informs so much of what we see in online publishing.

The graphical style is quite flat, but there's plenty of faux metal and pretend notebooks to remind you what skeuomorphism is - where a design object represents itself by a real - world visual counterpart, something Apple ditched in its iOS 7 update.