Apple Design Part 1: Skeuomorphism
Part 1 of 2: a video essay about Scott Forstall and Apple's skeuomorphic era of design.
Watch part 2: • Apple Design Part 2: Beyond Flat
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Fishes
02:23 Lickable
03:33 The First iPhone
04:36 Skeuomorphism
05:50 Case Study: The Floppy Disk
06:52 Time Travel
08:21 The Case Against Skeuomorphs
09:18 Fall From Grace
10:09 Outro
Sources
Adam Lashinsky - Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired—And Secretive—Company Really Works
Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism - https://www.inputmag.com/design/apple...
Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Skeuomorph Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph (September 2020)
Scott Forstall Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_F... (September 2020)
Code Break 9.0: Events with Macklemore & Scott Forstall - • Code Break 9.0: Events with Macklemor...
Screenshots sourced from
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history...
https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots
https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-s...
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history...
Music
Dyalla - Help Me, OP-1
Ugonna Onyekwe - Destination Unknown
Asher Fulero - Night Snow
Geographer - Synth Wind
Future Mono - Long Road
Future Mono - Sun Awakening
The Tower of Light - Stuck In The Air
The Tides - Dream Escape
Wayne Jones - Resolution
Blue Wednesday - Dusk https://chll.to/cc0f37b7
Setup
Camera: Canon 60D w/ Magic Lantern
Lens: EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Microphone: AmazonBasics Desktop Mini Condenser
Software: Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro X