Indeed. But there is another aspect besides the aesthetics. I regularly witness that especially seniors using contemporary smartphone apps or websites have re

Indeed. But there is another aspect besides the aesthetics. I regularly witness that especially seniors using contemporary smartphone apps or websites have real difficulty telling information apart from interface because of everything being flat. "Oh, this is actually a button – ...? – how do you know this?" When my ma asks me this I don't have a good answer other than: "I just know.". Which is terribly telling from a UX perspective. I studied UX at uni, many moons ago, when it was still called 'HCI' (human-computer interfaces). Interestingly, how an interface was rendered was never of any consideration or part of the curriculum at the time. I wonder if it is today when people study UX? In the 90's/early 2ks, when I was at uni, all interfaces elements on all OSs where somehow 3D. Except for menus. I guess that's why. It was accepted that mirroring a physical element, even if highly stylized, was the way to go. But then there were also style guides for every platform. While this is not related to the topic it is somehow connected. Best practices for any OS are regularly ignored for unified platform experience between the different incarnations of an app these days. And so I often wonder wtf. happened to all the knowledge we accumulated in this field when I see contemporary apps or websites. As for 'skeuomorphism' -- it still exists in it's best from (imho) from the early 2000s, in some modern apps. For example the Soundbrenner one comes to mind [1]. [1] https://www.soundbrenner.com/themetronome/ https://www.soundbrenner.com/themetronome/ [edited for typos]