In 1890 an Archaeologist named Henry Colley March published an article in Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society titled "The Meaning of Ornament: Or Its Archaeology and Its Psychology." In the article, March coined a word, a rather obscure and homely one: skeuomorph. He probably never anticipated that this word would become the focus of an intense 21st century debate in the field of digital-interface design, a debate being played out on the world's PCs and tablets and phones, right under the noses of billions of people who have no idea what a skeuomorph even is.
The term skeuomorph...
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