{"id":30865,"date":"2012-10-25T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/word-for-the-day-skeuomorphism.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:19:34","slug":"word-for-the-day-skeuomorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/word-for-the-day-skeuomorphism.html","title":{"rendered":"Word for the Day: Skeuomorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of design elements that were once necessary in the original product, but now are purely ornamental. \u00a0Examples include (as in the picture) &quot;spokes&quot; on a hub cap, or the little camera shutter sound played on digital cameras.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108730413722442439004\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"108730413722442439004\">Chris Ruhs<\/a><\/span>, for applying the word to the clock widget I use on my smartphone, which looks like the flipping-numbers clocks of my childhood).<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/1967_AMC_Marlin_wire_wheel_cover_CZ.jpg\/220px-1967_AMC_Marlin_wire_wheel_cover_CZ.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skeuomorph'>Skeuomorph &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHistorically, high-status items, such as metal tableware, were often recreated for the mass market using ceramics, which were a cheaper material. In certain cases, efforts were made to recreate the ri&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UKYshJBxKAo' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of design elements that were once necessary in the original product, but now are purely ornamental. \u00a0Examples include (as in the picture) &quot;spokes&quot; on a hub cap, or the little camera shutter sound played on digital cameras. (h\/t +Chris Ruhs, for applying the word to the clock widget I use on my smartphone, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/word-for-the-day-skeuomorphism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word for the Day: Skeuomorphism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,65,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-my-mobile-pda","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137069,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/whats-that-country-all-about.html","url_meta":{"origin":30865,"position":0},"title":"What&#8217;s that country all about?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Sep-18 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A fun world map with the most common word on their English Wikipedia page assigned to it. 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