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The design is horrible and a relic of skewmorphism. Single tally memory is useful on small screens. I just wish they’d display the stored value somewhere.
by ketozhang 4y ago
The design is horrible and a relic of skewmorphism.
Single tally memory is useful on small screens. I just wish they’d display the stored value somewhere.
- jonahx 4y agoThe design is: 1. Not skeuomorphic. 2. Indeed, flat. 3. Almost identical to the iPhone native calculator, except it uses round-edge rectangles instead of circles.
- schadara 4y agoFrom the second image, it appears he set the cornerRadius too high and the buttons became almonds. If that’s what he was going for, then perhaps it IS skeuomorphic? /s
- stevage 4y agoIt's skeuomorphic in the sense that the layout is very similar to a physical calculator.
- DrewADesign 4y agoNope. Skeumorphic design uses ornamentation, like textures and interaction animations, to mimic the aesthetic of a physical object. You don't even need to adopt an existing standard interface layout to be skeumorphic. Make those keys look rubber or give it a mock LCD display and you'd be skeumorphic even if the buttons were in a circle around the display.
- bee_rider 4y agoIt simulates the experience of having two iPhones with the calculator app open next to each-other. iPhones are physical objects.
- joemi 4y agoBy that logic, _any_ app is skeuomorphic by default just by existing. IMO that's being too liberal with the definition.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoNo they’re not. Look into the history of the term it’s from the era where your music playing app would function exactly like a CD player. For example iPhone calculator is a skeuo calculator because it has the same layout and limitations of a physical calculator. Soulver is a non-skeuo calculator because it is built around the benefits of a computer and ignores the history of a calculator.
- joemi 4y agoThe key to skeuomorphism is that it's based on unnecessary ornamentation, like giving a button on a computer a 3D look, or having a display in an app have a fake glass sheen.
- thrwaway23236 4y ago> iPhone calculator is a skeuo calculator because it has the same layout and limitations of a physical calculator. In that case you can also consider the iPhone "dialer" to be skeuomorphic, as it has the same layout as the old physical buttons. The digital keyboard is also using the same layout as a physical keyboard. One could argue that on a touch screen, the buttons are there because it is the most efficient layout and not because it looks like a physical calculator. In that case, it is not skeuomorphic.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoThe iPhone dialer definitely is. I'm not saying that's bad or anything, some things are better being skeuomorphic if it helps users understand the interface. It's just the actual user interface design discussion gets drowned out by how honestly for lack of a better word embarrassing most digital design discourse is in general it's been changed into more of an art direction debate than a UI design one. >One could argue that on a touch screen, the buttons are there because it is the most efficient layout and not because it looks like a physical calculator. In that case, it is not skeuomorphic. It definitely is designed to be a physical calculator though to the extent it is an actual copy of a famous one [1], and has all the limitations of a physical calculator even mincing the memory limitations of a physical calculator. [1] : https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/iphone_braun.jpg https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/iphone_braun.jp...