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. That’s not even counting the design disaster that is Find My Friends and Calendar–fake leather is tacky in real life, but virtual fake leather is inexcusable. However, there hasn’t been an Apple statement saying that they’ll change these elements, only conjecture. According to the ol’ anonymous Apple employee, interviewed by the NYT: (more…)
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