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.
I loved Susannah Tredwell's column
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Then iOS 7 shipped with a redesign that not only moved
skeuomorphism away from rich textures and towards rich physical interactions, it also repainted everything bright white.
Looks like someone here is angry that Microsoft banished
skeuomorphism from ios and android.
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.»
In doing so, Hawser explores the potential for obsolete objects to be appropriated and transformed for contemporary use, a process often referred to
as skeuomorphism.
The Taptic Engine works incredibly well, it's like
physical skeuomorphism - try pressing the button with paper in between it and your finger, you'll soon realise how effective it is.
You can change the theme (and icons) should you wish, with a «Youth» theme clearly aimed at younger users, while the «Journey» theme
takes skeuomorphism to the extreme - British red telephone boxes and all.
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.
Alongside material design, line icons is the other movement finalizing the decline
of skeuomorphism.
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.
It's an automaker finally willing to abandon
the skeuomorphism of a false radiator grille, the tradition of a driver - oriented gauge panel.
Even though we wish it would do away with
the skeuomorphism on the stitching, it isn't quite as obvious as it was on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
This move away from page flips alone is something to be celebrated, but then just a few days later, came the ousting of Scott Forstall (widely seen as the father of
skeuomorphism) from Apple.
Three squat humidifiers, dressed like foam rocks, flaunt their cuteness;
their skeuomorphism drives the scene into fantasy and they puff off into associations between fairy tale, science fiction, and the mundane.
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.
One advantage of
skeuomorphism is that it gives users some kind of reference point when switching from a physical to a digital object.
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.
It's meant to mimic the tactility of real - world objects without resorting to
skeuomorphism; Google describes it as a synthesis of «classic principles» with «[the] innovation and possibility» of technology.