This doesn't directly relate to Pearnote, but as a developer, I'm a little curious on your opinion of skeuomorphism (making a app look like a real thing its supposed to imitate)?
Opinion on skeuomorphism?
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Skeumorphism is a tool that developers can use to shorten a learning curve of an app by relating it to something else the user already knows how to use. It can be very effective in that. It can also have the side effect of preventing the app from being as useful as it could be by limiting it to the constraints of the real world. And, it can also be just superfluous eye candy that doesn't help the use of the app at all.
So, I see skeumorphism as neither good nor bad inherently. It's all in how it's used. That said, I tend to shy away from skeumorphism myself. I generally prefer to remove the constraints of the physical world when designing software, and I accept the trade-off of a potentially steeper learning curve.
Posted 7 years ago #
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