What is Skeuomorphism?
It is a design approach created to mimic real-world elements in the digital environment. As the design style was too close to the objects of real world, it gave the feeling of familiarity to the user. This enhanced the experience while using the interface resulting in better and faster task completion. Skeuomorphic designs can be recognized by the icon style of iPhone during its earlier stage, around 2007.
While skeuomorphic designs ruled the early days of digital interfaces but today we can see a shift in design trends towards minimalism, flat design style with appealing aesthetics. Despite this shift, skeuomorphism still can be seen in multiple gaming applications to keep the user bind to the game by providing real life experience. Some VR and AR apps also do the same. Skeuomorphism is the step in UI design from which todays users were made familiar with the digital world because of which they are now easily able to understand the style of today.
Difference Between Skeuomorphism and Flat Design in UI
Skeuomorphic designs were used to rule the UI design system in earlier days. Today how outdated it may look but this design has made the user familiar with the ways real-world elements are incorporated in interfaces because of which a paradigm shift from skeuomorphism to flat designs happened easily.
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