Sebastiaan de With
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Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.
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Updated 2025-06-03 -
6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Skeuomorphism never meant gloss and gradients; it meant easing users from what they were used to into what things had become. (opens korrents.com)
“It actually means that to make it easier for users to transition from something they were used to — in this case, phones typically being slabs with a grid of buttons on them — to what things had become — phones were…”
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Interfaces are returning to skeuomorphism, but as behaviour rather than lacquer: clear, graphic elements that act like materials from the real world. (opens korrents.com)
“We’ve come back, in a sense, to skeuomorphic interfaces — but this time not with a lacquer resembling a material. Instead, the interface is clear, graphic and behaves like things we know from the real world, or might…”
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Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials. (opens korrents.com)
“Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking,…”
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Skeuomorphism never meant gloss and gradients; it meant easing users from what they were used to into what things had become. (opens korrents.com)