Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
March 8, 2024
How much was really lost in the great calamity that was iOS 7? For a UI designer like myself, quite a lot. I wandered around aimlessly for some time before finding my footing again. There was something so tangible with using real world metaphors for digital interfaces.
Source: Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
iOS 7, released in 2013 introduced a new visual interface design language for the iPhone and iPad. Hone was “skeuomorphism”, the close visual adherence to real world objects–leather and wood backgrounds, stark 3D buttons.
But as Max Rudberg argues here, sometimes a button does want to look like a button.
