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The rise and fall of skeuomorphism

Although Apple’s use of skeuomorphism – making computer things look like real things – peaked in the 2000s, The trash can is skeuomorphic, as are folders and Stickies. But where the macOS merely flirted with skeuomorphism, the iPhone was up the skeuomorphic tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

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