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In my understanding, buttons and tabs are skeuomorphs, no matter if they are rendered flat or pseudo-3D. In a true digital UI (e. g. CLI shell) there are no suc
by Fice 13y ago
In my understanding, buttons and tabs are skeuomorphs, no matter if they are rendered flat or pseudo-3D. In a true digital UI (e. g. CLI shell) there are no such things. I am not trying to say that we should get rid of buttons everywhere, my point is that making UI flat is not enough to make it non-skeuomorphic: it may be flat but still based on imitating real-world objects (now doing it badly).
- news_to_me 13y agoYeah, but if you keep going you could say the command line is skeuomorphic just by being text: it's the digital equivalent to typewritten text. If you go further, you could say that the glyphs of the letters themselves are skeuomorphs, in the same way that icons are. When it comes down to it, buttons are a simple and effective interface, regardless of whether or not they represent some physical or historical analog.
- Gormo 13y agoWhat's a "true" digital UI? If you're going to say buttons and tabs are skeuomorphic, what isn't skeuomorphic? Interacting with a CLI resembles the back-and-forth query and response of conversational dialogue: it's skeuomorphic too! Here's a question for you: what, exactly, is wrong with using metaphors for existing, well-known analogues to convey information in a new context? Isn't this how languages, notational conventions, and symbolic connotations naturally evolve among humans? I understand why people are tired of Apple's excess, but what's the problem with skeuomorphism per se?
- Fice 13y agoHave I said anywhere that using metaphors is wrong? What is wrong is when a UI uses the button metaphor but avoids making buttons look like ones just to seem more "digital".