{"id":22926,"date":"2025-06-08T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:30:31","slug":"on-classic-cars-the-feeling-of-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/08\/on-classic-cars-the-feeling-of-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"On classic cars &#038; the feeling of craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Gruber recently linked back to <a href=\"https:\/\/appdocumentary.com\/2015\/01\/08\/neven-mrgan-on-why-skeuomorphism-is-like-a-classic-car\/\">this clip<\/a> in which designer Neven Mrgan highlights what feels like an important consideration in the age of mass-generated AI &#8220;designs&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I think that was what mattered is that they looked <strong>rich<\/strong>, they looked like <strong>a lot of work<\/strong> had been put into them. That&#8217;s what people latch onto. It seems it&#8217;s something that, yes, <strong>they should have spent money on,<\/strong> and they should be spending time on right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of what tools were used in the making of a piece, does it feel rich, crafted, thoughtfully made? Does it have a point, and a point of view? As production gets faster, those qualities will become all the more critical for anything\u2014and anyone\u2014wishing to stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116295698?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber recently linked back to this clip in which designer Neven Mrgan highlights what feels like an important consideration in the age of mass-generated AI &#8220;designs&#8221;: I think that was what mattered is that they looked rich, they looked like a lot of work had been put into them. That&#8217;s what people latch onto. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926"}],"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=22926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22928,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22926\/revisions\/22928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}