> I'm 35 and I have probably seen an actual contact book once when I was little. It doesn't make sense to have a skeuomorphic contact book as an icon for Contacts.
There was a rhetoric not too long ago where OSx fanboys would make fun of Windows' interfaces for still using the disk icon as the "save" button. Now that guy is complaining that the photos app icon doesn't look like a Point And Shoot camera, when fewer and fewer people use those.
Skeuomorphism doesn't make sense anymore when the real world items it's based on are vanishing.
Case in point – telling a young kid how to answer a call on the iPhone: press the green banana button.
There was a rhetoric not too long ago where OSx fanboys would make fun of Windows' interfaces for still using the disk icon as the "save" button. Now that guy is complaining that the photos app icon doesn't look like a Point And Shoot camera, when fewer and fewer people use those.
Skeuomorphism doesn't make sense anymore when the real world items it's based on are vanishing.
Case in point – telling a young kid how to answer a call on the iPhone: press the green banana button.