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Re:In Praise of Buttons by JR1427 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:35AM (#39217804)
For those who didn't know the term (like me):

Skeuomorphism is a term most often used in graphical user interface design to describe interface objects that mimic their real-world counterparts in how they appear and/or how the user can interact with them.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/skeuomo...

Re:In Praise of Buttons by nubero on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:41AM (#39227920)
Unfortunately, one of the many pieces, where the term affordance is confused with what should be the term signifier. When people talk about the former, they usually mean the latter.