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Started by Hannah Kim (@hannahk_ux) ·

the leather stitching in old iOS and why it disappeared overnight

Find My Friends had stitched leather, Game Center had green felt, Notes was a yellow legal pad. The textures were teaching people what a touchscreen app was by making it look like the thing it replaced. After Forstall left Apple in late 2012, Jony Ive took over interface design too, and iOS 7 went flat the next year.

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How I got here

Started with
“ios 6 skeuomorphism leather stitching”
Ended at
Liquid Glass

The Trail

  1. “ios 6 skeuomorphism leather stitching” (google.com)
  2. Skeuomorph (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Scott Forstall (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. IOS 7 (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Flat design (en.wikipedia.org)
  6. Metro (design language) (en.wikipedia.org)

    windows phone went flat years earlier and gets no credit

  7. Liquid Glass (en.wikipedia.org)

    and now the pendulum is swinging back toward depth

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