Good article - for me though 'trend' implies fashion, where this is actually quite practical. Interfaces used to be new and different in every program - hence t

Good article - for me though 'trend' implies fashion, where this is actually quite practical. Interfaces used to be new and different in every program - hence the need to comfort users with skeuomorphs to make sure they know what something does. Nowdays the ubiquity of the iphone/android and windows-derived interfaces mean that you don't have to provide so much suggestion - users just 'know what to do' when confronted with something that would have been difficult to understand for the average user 10 years ago.