Thursday, November 1, 2012

Why Apple May Be Ditching Fake Leather, Felt, And Bookshelves

Why Apple May Be Ditching Fake Leather, Felt, And Bookshelves

The New York Times' excellent Bits Blog wrote this morning about how Apple's management changes could lead to user interface changes. In particular, this concerns skeuomorphic elements and textures: Forstall (and Jobs before him) were apparently enamored with recreating real objects in the iOS interface. You can see this in apps like Game Center (hideous felt and a casino table motif), Newsstand and iBooks (they're not real texts unless they're on a virtual shelf), and the linen texture that pervades iOS and now OS X.

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