: Industry Term for Interface that looks Intentionally Realistic / Archaic It's killing me because I can't find a good way to search for this, but I've heard the term used when people discuss

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It's killing me because I can't find a good way to search for this, but I've heard the term used when people discuss a lot of iOS applications that use knobs, sliders, and other graphical elements designed to imitate physical interface components.

There are a lot of great examples of this in the music/sound design software industry, for example Propellerhead's Reason :

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You can try Vintage or Retro.

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@Shelley591

Skeuomorph is perhaps the term you are looking for. Here's a discussion on UX:
ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13449/what-are-some-examples-of-famous-effective-skeuomorph-uis/
I think it's an equally valid Graphic Design question as well.

As an aside: I think knobs are one of the greatest physical UI elements out there. I also think it's the one that suffers the most when attempted to be duplicated in a screen based interface.

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