DL :)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agoWindows 98 Icons are Greatalexmeub.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down10
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkWindows 98 Icons are Greatalexmeub.comDL :)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareMummelpuffin@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI was barely alive in 1998, but I definitely think Win98 was the perfect sort of skeuomorphism, not super showy or maximalist like a lot of skeumorphic design is. It’s like modern minimalism without the suck.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years ago skeuomorphism New word learned. For the lazy: it’s a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. For instance : a lamp in the shape of a candle, or the folders in a operating system.
I was barely alive in 1998, but I definitely think Win98 was the perfect sort of skeuomorphism, not super showy or maximalist like a lot of skeumorphic design is. It’s like modern minimalism without the suck.
New word learned.
For the lazy: it’s a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.
For instance : a lamp in the shape of a candle, or the folders in a operating system.