Sentences with phrase «of skeuomorphs»

The panel had opened with several dictionary definitions of skeuomorphs from Nicholas Herman and Sarah M. Guerin, both of the Université de Montréal.

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Detractors say skeuomorphs represent the triumph of familiarity over function.

In this case, the technique wasn't employed as a weak rhetorical device, but rather as a necessarily informative one, which I will recreate here: a skeuomorph is an «Object or feature that imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material,» according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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.

Or is the whole concept of an «eBook» simply one great skeuomorph?