In your opinion, what would be an example of a "beautiful skeuomorphic gradient"? I don't use Apple software (or hardware) much, but I recall a certain stitche

In your opinion, what would be an example of a "beautiful skeuomorphic gradient"? I don't use Apple software (or hardware) much, but I recall a certain stitched-leather user interface for iCal that really put me off skeuomorphism in User Interfaces.