Tuesday, October 07, 2008

My friend Chris Lewis has awesome words of the day.

Skeuomorph

PRONUNCIATION:
(SKYOO-uh-morf)

MEANING:

noun: A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary. For example, the click sound of a shutter in an analog camera that is now reproduced in a digital camera by playing a sound clip.

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