News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake. Parent comment

Re:And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake by Yen on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:12AM (#17659882)
The word I think of is "skeumorphic", though that's not 100% the same thing here.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake by syphilis2 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:00AM (#17662552)
I believe this is the word that best fits.

skeuomorphic - Pertaining to skeuomorphs, obsolete design elements which are retained for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.

[ Parent | on HN ]