neumorphism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A faddish user interface style that is characterized by flat design and monochromaticity, combined with soft shadows, poor contrast (e.g., light gray on slightly less gray), faint highlights, and hiding of UI elements (e.g., controls, menu commands) as Easter eggs.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Unlike its predecessor, neumorphism makes use of very mild and subtle effects, and does not try to over represent objects in nature, but create a new form that appears like a clay render […] of mostly analog elements from the old world."
- "When you boil it down, neumorphism is a focus on how light moves in three-dimensional space."
- "Their work for clients like Tata AIG, where their UX team designed one of the first sites based on the Neumorphism model, the #GiftThoughtFully campaign for Home Centre where they handled the content & creative aspect, video directive for Saint Gobain and helping build the brand Alyte for Mahindra Logistics, right from its brand identity to planning a pan India launch, has received great reviews from customers and industry stakeholders, both."
- "Second, the Material design as the most recent UI design trends and the Neumorphism design were compared with the method of expression based on the definition and characteristics of Neumorphism design that we investigated. In this context, we also analyzed the possibility of Neumorphism becoming the new UI design trend."
- "The problem arises because of its evident accessibility issues. Because of this, Neumorphism has hardly ever been implemented in final products."
Etymology
From new + skeuomorphism. A Medium posthttps://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6?gi=d16d78e27024 on December 19, 2019 by Michal Malewicz credits the name to Jason Kelley (who spelled it Neuomorphism, on December 3, 2019https://medium.com/@jason_kelley/neuomorphism-2c4cbe84caae).