Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Nov 2012 01:11 UTC, submitted by Panajev

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RE[3]: Subconscious signal
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Sat 3rd Nov 2012 19:35
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I really don't understand the argument, could you possibly fill in the blanks left by the author?
Where is skuemorphic design good? Showing concrete examples would be a good thing. I think he briefly touched on the calculator in ios. How is the ios calculator better as a calculator because of its design than the one in android? There are only so many ways to do a calculator, almost all of the obvious ones are intuitive to anyone who's ever used one. I've only seen bad skeu, never good.
RE[4]: Subconscious signal
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 5th Nov 2012 22:44
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The interesting thing in the article is that the argument "it is good because it sells" is not the argument put forth by the person writing the article and not the reason I submitted it. Confuting an argument by misrepresenting it is the textbook definition of strawman right?
If you wanted to stretch things you could cut a few parts in the following argument (which is similar to the argument made about OSX and iOS by the article writer), re-arrange it, and call it a day
"skeuomorphism can lead to visually pleasing and familiar UI's (when not abused) --> iOS is liked because it has a well designed, mostly very coherent, familiar UI and does use skeumorphic elements in a few places --> iOS sells because it has some good qualities, nice UI being one of them"