A case for skeuomorphic design

There’s a lot skeuomorphic design can offer to help create desirable objects: Do you want any candy in your UI? Advertisements

Higher expectations of minimal design

Once objects stop resembling real-life counterparts people tend to expect more of them. You don’t expect much from a notepad. Just scribble in it. That is why Notes in iOS were OK to just support writing. But as soon as it looses the original look (take notepad example), people want it to do more, at least…