We hatethe way a peck of Apple design looks , these 24-hour interval : virtual leather , felt , Grant Wood , and Methedrine . It ’s like a sleazy game room in your Cool Uncle ’s basement . Who is making these eye - screwing decisions?Fast Company say it was Jobs .
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Skeumorphism — the design technique of making a practical thing appear like a real thing in guild to aid familiarize you with it — has turn from a mole to a tumor across both OS X and iOS . And whileApple ’s Scott Forstall is considered the main culpritthese days , FastCo ’s Austin Carr spoke with former Apple interior decorator who say otherwise :
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But before Forstall , it was Steve Jobs who further the skeuomorphic approach , some say . “ iCal ’s leather - sewing was literally ground on a grain in his Gulfstream jet , ” says the former senior UI designer . “ There was lots of internal electronic mail among UI designers at Apple say this was just embarrassing , just terrible . ”
Pushing for a modification in plan trajectory based on the luxury stitching in your gaudy private super C seems so antithetically Apple , and yet so quintessentially Steve Jobs . The man was a vanity case and an egomaniac , with a caterpillar tread phonograph record of judgment relapse . It ’s not implausible as it go , but that does n’t make it any less insane or disheartening . permit ’s hope Tim Cook fly commercial-grade . [ FastCompany ]
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