He is a UX/Visual designer, of course the design is going to be more than skin deep. Skeumorphism impacts everything about UX. Think about the desktop model, fr

He is a UX/Visual designer, of course the design is going to be more than skin deep. Skeumorphism impacts everything about UX. Think about the desktop model, from that we got folders, which had files in them. Compare that to throwing out the desktop model. Now you have an image gallery, you select an image. You do not dig through folders of images, instead you look by context. Maybe that context is dates, maybe it is locations, or maybe it is whose faces that were auto detected in the images. Things like auto-tagging location and faces are features that stem largely from the abandonment of skeumorphism, skeumorphism is a metaphor and as with all metaphors it is designed to make thinking about a new concept easier, but at the same time it is also limiting because all metaphors are limiting and imperfect. Note that I have a very encompassing view of what UX designers do. The lead UX designer I work with oversees everything from physical hardware design to software, and indeed having integration between the two is very important. (Something Samsung could learn, if I had a dollar for every time my phone got put into Mute mode on the way into my pocket the phone would have long since paid for itself!)