Welcome to the Jony Ive Era at Apple - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD

Hopefully skeuomorphic design will now be a thing of the past...

"One area he clashed with Forstall on, in fact, was in this arena. Forstall, for example, favored skeuomorphic design — adding real-to-life elements in software — while Ive reportedly deplored it (as did many).
Now, Ive will be free to rid Apple software of it and, really, do anything he likes."

Welcome to the Jony Ive Era at Apple - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD