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Skeuomorphism
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Skeuomorphism, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Floppy-disk save icon and physical-object metaphors are meaningless to a new user who never saw the originals2023-04-23
- Calendar only lets you flip between pages, limiting how you can navigate dates2018-10-15
- Mouse pointer can't roll knobs like physical ones, so they're hard to use2014-02-10
- Calculator mimicking a real-world device is painful to use on a computer2010-03-11