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Re:Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words by sangnoir on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:46PM (#35529496)
> Most people I think aren't opposed to well designed UI that incorporates a central tenant of Jobs', which is that design is functionality and not purely visual

Jobs loved skeuomorpism, which isn't inherently bad, but having iOS UI elements reproduce the stitching from seats in his private jet skews close to "purely visual". Also, the (early) iOS date picker was unforgivable - I assume Jobs was aware of its existence & approved of its rubber-stamp-like, user-hostile skeuomorphic design

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Re:Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words by kitsunesoba on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:57PM (#35529710)
Extreme skeuomorphism I would agree is purely visual, but I think there’s a lot of functional value in buttons looking like buttons and other visual indicators of function.
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