Reasons for and discussion about reverting primary definition to the narrower one I have edited the article so that the primary definition of skeuomorphism given is the narrow one an element that imitates something that was once functional in an older design and I have relegated the broader definition of skeuomorphism anything that looks like anything else to being mentioned as an alternative definition later in the article This is a reversal of the way the article has been for about a year but I believe it was the correct choice for the following reasons The narrow definition is the original definition of the term and as far as I am aware it is the exclusive definition used by designers Most of the content of the article is written for the narrower definition and doesn t make sense when applied to the broad definition I don t believe the broader definition even existed until tech bloggers diluted it from the narrow defintion within the last few years This article was written using the narrow definition and retained that definition up until mid 2012 Wiktionary still uses that definition as well The broad definition is not useful as design term as it has the exact same meaning as the word imitates Using the broad definition then leaves no term to describe the specific cases that fall under the original narrower definition of skeuomorphism I saw that somebody had started a discussion about this several months ago and it go no replies I have decided to be bold and make the edit and hopefully anybody who disagrees with it will be willing to discuss it here