{"id":1867,"date":"2015-01-18T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2015-01-18T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:44:18","slug":"why-skeuomorphism-is-like-a-classic-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/why-skeuomorphism-is-like-a-classic-car\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy two and a half thoughtful, beautifully produced minutes of Neven Mrgan&#8217;s observations about design evolution:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116295698\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I first got to know Neven after he knocked Photoshop for its unruly sprawl of UI elements (specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/mrgan.tumblr.com\/post\/235455865\/the-many-sliders-of-photoshop-cs4\">lots of arbitrarily different sliders<\/a>). I was stung as by then I\u2019d been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/photoshop_as_seen_through_johnny_cash.html\">writing about<\/a>\u00a0and fighting to address this phenomenon for years. We had so many good intentions &amp; false starts trying to re-wing that old plane in flight, and I was sick to death of hearing Apple zealots (not Neven) say, \u201cJust use the standard Mac elements\u201d\u2014when in practice no such standards existed. In any case, Neven\u2019s post broke the ice, and we ended up dropping in on the Panic team a couple of times over the years. Their ideas on how to evolve PS were always helpful\u2014and I was deeply gratified to rationalize a bunch of those slider types in CS5 and beyond. [<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/116295698\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy two and a half thoughtful, beautifully produced minutes of Neven Mrgan&#8217;s observations about design evolution: As it happens, I first got to know Neven after he knocked Photoshop for its unruly sprawl of UI elements (specifically, lots of arbitrarily different sliders). I was stung as by then I\u2019d been writing about\u00a0and fighting to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}