Skeuomorphism

As a design ethos – is it dead or alive? Do you even know what it is?

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So, what’s a skeuomorph? To answer that, Wikipedia is a good place to start:

“A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding an…