{"id":22609,"date":"2012-11-04T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/technically-skeuomorphic-design-refers-to\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T14:30:52","slug":"technically-skeuomorphic-design-refers-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/technically-skeuomorphic-design-refers-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Technically, \u201cskeuomorphic\u201d design refers to software that mimics the elements in an older device that were functionally necessary for that device to work. In that way, the iPhone calculator\u2019s three-dimensional buttons are an archetypal example of skeuomorphism. You needed three-dimensional buttons in physical calculators; on a flat screen, 3-D buttons aren\u2019t necessary. (On the other hand, leather stitching in the Calendar app isn\u2019t skeuomorphic, because the leather isn\u2019t functional, just decorative.)<br \/>\nThe iPhone calculator\u2019s skeuomorphism doesn\u2019t add any extra functionality to the app, nor does it convey any extra information about what the app does (as skeuomorphism does for Notes). Its only purpose, then, is emotional: The calculator\u2019s three-dimensional buttons (which, it turns out, are a tribute to an iconic Braun pocket calculator) make the calculator feel approachable. This becomes obvious when you look at Windows\u2019 calculator: Without the shadows on the buttons, it looks anodyne, lacking in personality. Now, I bet there are many readers who like that look, who feel that a calculator app should be anodyne. To me, though, that seems like an acquired taste, not a mainstream instinct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2012\/11\/scott_forstall_fired_skeumorphism_the_design_concept_that_s_tearing_apple.html\">Scott Forstall fired: Skeumorphism, the design concept that\u2019s tearing Apple and the tech world apart. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, \u201cskeuomorphic\u201d design refers to software that mimics the elements in an older device that were functionally necessary for that device to work. In that way, the iPhone calculator\u2019s three-dimensional buttons are an archetypal example of skeuomorphism. You needed three-dimensional buttons in physical calculators; on a flat screen, 3-D buttons aren\u2019t necessary. (On the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5SF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}