"What’s skeuomorphism? If you’ve ever used an Apple product, you’ve experienced digital skeuomorphic design: calendars with faux leather-stitching, bookshelves with wood veneers, fake glass and paper and brushed chrome. Skeuomorphism is a catch-all term for when objects retain ornamental elements of past, derivative iterations–elements that are no longer necessary to the current objects’ functions."-Tim Worstall
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"Skeuomorphic design definitely has its place. And that place is generally when there’s a change in the way that we do some well known task. As an example, if we’re moving from making notes on a notebook to making them on a screen, it aids us in preparing mentally for doing so if the application on the screen we’re using to make notes looks like an old fashioned notebook. So too with a news stand: why not make it look like a traditional news stand to aid in orienting people?"
-Tim Worstall
