> And to clear another misconception some people have, faux leather stitchings have nothing to do with "skeuomorphism".
To test my conceptions (which very well may be mis-):
That is, "unless you're interacting with the UI element as if it were stitches", yes?
>I think what you're missing is that the flat design principles relying on crafty use of shading and visual hierarchy to structure elements.
And what you are missing is that obviously the shading was NOT used in this UI examples.
As for the faux-leather stitching etc, this has been discussed to death. Those use of this kind of ornaments depend on the design fashions of the day -- Apple was universally lauded for introduced some of those back in the day, before flat become the new fad again. And we had that going back and forth several times in the design world (even going as far as from Ancient Greece to Rome, or from classical to baroque to modernism etc). And to clear another misconception some people have, faux leather stitchings have nothing to do with "skeuomorphism".