Is skeuomorphism sneaking back in?

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I just looked at the Weather app on my iPhone this morning and noticed:

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that the rain falling in the background lands and splashes off of the top of the first panel and droplets actually land on the lower panels. I’m inside my home as I took the screenshot and the iPhone is perfectly dry, so perhaps this needs a bug report. I’m now expecting the next iOS version to have the wet ink running down the display. Note that the Weather app on the Mac doesn’t yet have this nonsense, but we will probably see it as a highlighted feature at WWDC 2024.

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Yes it does… It was snowing on my desktop this afternoon! (It wasn’t snowing outside though.)

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Doublechecked since it is still raining here. On the Mac the rain does fall in the background but raindrops don’t splash and droplets don’t land.

I wish for snow someplace I follow. I wonder if snow piles up on the top of the first panel?

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I especially like the lightning effects during thunderstorms. :zap:

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If it’s clear sky at night, the stars twinkle and the occasional shooting star flies across the sky.

Found it is snowing in Missoula. The flakes just fall past all the panes.

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Katie

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Sorry to be pedantic, but I don’t think this is skeuomorphism which is “interface objects that mimic their real-world counterparts in how they appear and/or how the user can interact with them.” (e.g. the trash bin that appears to fill up when you drag files to it) See here

This is graphical display to convey information, which is really what the whole app does. It’s whimsical (and I like it) but it’s not skeuomorphic.

By the way, skeuomorphism never went away, it just got a little more abstract and the graphic language a little more refined.

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Man I was confused with 35 degrees and snow. Then it deemed me that you use Fahrenheit :sweat_smile:.

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When the rain falls and bounces off of the top of the first pane and drops land on the other panes, I would say that the panes are mimicing their real-world counterparts. Without that I’d agree it isn’t skeuomorphic.

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Fortunately Apple dumped the leather bound calendar and address book, etc. I was getting tired of having to edit the apps files to get rid of it. :grinning:

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Try Paonia, Colorado. We’ve had over a foot of snoe over the last couple of days.

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I don’t usually mind skeumorphic designs, but agree the “leather bound” notepad was a bit over the top. They’re not only used for interface elements either. The oldest example I can think of is the city of Petra in Jordan. Here they carved the “load bearing” columns straight out of the rock face, effectively reducing the structural integrity of the wall (not to a degree that mattered, it seems).

These are plain decorative design elements mimicing roman or greek architecture, with no practical use except looking awesome.

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