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by jonathankoren 1282 days ago
> ah, but flat design is also skeuomorphic.

Please elaborate

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I can see this rapidly ‘degenerating’ into “what is a chair? Is a tree stump you sit on a chair?”- or “is there such a thing as a ‘chair’, after all ‘chair’ is an abstract concept and what we sit on is physical items”-type discussions.

“It’s skeuomorphic because it reminds me of icons which are things”