Comment by overfeed
7 days ago
> Jobs acted as an editor and sounding board. You can't just let designers (or engineers) run wild.
Apple went way too far with the skeuomorphism, and Ives & co. may have over-corrected. Speaking of running wild: I'd consider painstakingly reproducing the stitching on the seats in Job's jet in the icon for an Apple app (Notes, IIRC) to be going overboard. Apple was rightly mocked for taking skeuomorphism too far, and as a result making onscreen, virtual objects mimick real objects became outdated, and people are now nostalgic for it because the backlash has been forgotten.
> people are now nostalgic for it because the backlash has been forgotten.
What backslash? Only backslash I remember is when flat design was introduced. The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.
> What backslash?
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/11/apples-designers-clashi...
https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/skueomorphism-red-headed-s...
https://gizmodo.com/apples-podcasts-app-no-longer-has-horrib...
https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/22/3680320/skeuomorphic-des...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/death-to-textures-io...
https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3367270/yves-behar-apple-...
https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/skeuomorphism-isnt-ioss-bi...
https://daringfireball.net/2013/01/the_trend_against_skeuomo...
Edit: FYI: you typoed 'backlash' twice
> The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.
You're just proving my point. Notice how all of these were posted after Zune/Metro/Windows Phone/8/whatever it's called flat design craziness started.
Just look at this quote from Gruber's blog post:
...these hallmarks of modern UI graphic design style are (almost) never used in good print graphic design. They’re unnecessary in print...
No shit, guess what also wasn't needed in print: Buttons to be pressed and radioboxes to be selected. The whole fad just built on "old design is old and designers need to be employed".
Apple had an internal clash over which design direction they should go after the release of Windows 8 but every user rightfully hated Windows 8 flat design. The resonance to skeuomorphism was very positive back then.
I don't know when Windows 8 was released, but by 2012-2013, skeuomorphic design had become very unpopular, tacky even. See the links I included in response to sibling comment.