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Re:Scott Forstall leaves Apple by MetricMike on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:17PM (#4715080)
The dichotomy is what's dangerous. Address Book looks like an book, so I'll try to interact with it like that. When that doesn't work, I get confused, angry, and it's generally a "failure" from a UX point of view.

Neither form of skeuomorphism is inherently bad, but it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot and ruin the UX when you move from decorative to functional.

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Re:Scott Forstall leaves Apple by eridius on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:23PM (#4715114)
Yes, I get the complaints about Address Book. But "page flipping in an e-book" is either really poorly written, or was not referring to Address Book to begin with, since Address Book is not an e-book. Hence my question.
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Re:Scott Forstall leaves Apple by feverishaaron on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @01:49PM (#4718498)
Indeed, they were intended to be separate examples.
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