In defending Apple’s use of skeuomorphism, a former Apple designer offers a wealth of smart insights about UI design. A former senior UI designer at Apple recently described to me the criticism he ...

Let us explain: Skeuomorphic apps take pains to reference or mimic physical, real-world features in their user interfaces. Apple is the current king of this design style, enshrining skeuomorphics in ...

Apple shook up its executive team yesterday, and one of the clear casualties is Scott Forstall (yes, of Maps and Siri fame). But there’s another reason Forstall is gone, and the clue is in the ...

It must surely be a sign of the impending apocalypse that Microsoft’s operating systems have “more taste” than Apple’s. I’m referring, of course, to Apple’s inexplicable use of skeuomorphic design in ...