Flat Design
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- Continuity0
From a purely marketing design perspective, I love flat, always did.
Where it gets a bit complicated is in UI. As Nathan says, subtle cues do go a long way, and over the course of, say, the last 15 years, I think users have become so accustomed to different UI elements having certain design elements used (for example, buttons having a raised appearance) that it might cause a bit of confusion. Kind of in the same way that there are certain signage icons we're all used to seeing and understanding and, the moment it goes off-piste, we get confused.
- antimotion0
- mmm.the typog on that is really not functioning properly for me, chromium/pcmikotondria3
- georgesIII0
I like flat design, an example: When I switch from Android to IOS, I feel like going from college to playschool,
having texture when done right is awesome, but when it's done ad cazzum, it looks like shit and IOS has just too much unnecessary junk
- formed0
As I just posted in the Windows forum, I am an advocate for good design - it matters. iOS is horribly ugly, generally speaking. Apple's hardward is superb. Windows Phone looks fantastic, but the designs are still behind.
If Ivy can do what he did with hardware, as they hope he will, then Apple will shoot to the top.
Ironically, all MS and Apple need to do is copy each other. Apple seems ok to copy other people (uh, "windows"), but the hardware world seems reluctant to build one good thing and instead make a billion mediocre things.
It'll be interesting to see where it lands.
- Ummm... Windows copied Apple, actually. Mac 1985, Windows 1985.ETM
- err... Mac 1984ETM
- apple doesn't make their own hardware... it's the same stuff as in the PCsalbums
- umm. apple & microsoft stole from PARC. look it up.antagonlsta
- *Apple's hardware design...better?
(hadn't had my coffee and a migraine, not sure what I was thinking about the 'uh, windows' comment ;-)formed - We ALL KNOW about Xerox PARC FFS. Please.ETM
- Every twat who comes along like they're the only person who knows that, belongs in the "Punches for" thread.ETM
- then why claim that MS stole from apple assclown. id just like to punch you fuck the thread.antagonlsta
- Xerox didn't even have a product to sell.monospaced
- Irafis0
- neatgeorgesIII
- These themes have been available via jailbreak for yearsshaft
- dyspl0
- that's a dumb point.. they're showing their design of an app. In context. Should they redesign phones to go along?ESKEMA
- you don't get my point.dyspl
- well they have gradients now that they've been put in an "environment". Think about what that means for the visual language...zarkonite
- language being promoted here...zarkonite
- they already had a couple of gradients.Amicus
- duhset
- prophetone0
Flat or Skeuomorphic is the Wrong Question. It’s About Satisfaction.
http://speckyboy.com/2013/03/27/…
- set0
- Late Afternoon UI
refunktion - <utopian
- do the evolutionjaylarson
- Next trend. Flat design is out of style already.CygnusZero4
- http://i.qkme.me/27g…flashbender
- lol @ "and for some reason it looks great"tymeframe
- Late Afternoon UI
- itsricky0
I hear what you're saying guys, but the point raised earlier about not beginning any design with pre-set ideas is important. That's not being a responsible designer.
I think the whole 'flat is black' thing is 'hot' and getting a lot of coverage at the moment becuase its dead easy to implement, its very easy to carry right through prototyping into finished design, and its very easy to support - fairly widespread browser support. The style lends well to Screen readers and the vision impared, and generally speaking, the user of the style takes any design down a 'less is more' path on the web, which is good.
I feel there are a few things happening at once in the industry though - one is that clients and agencies are waking up to the idea of multiple, simultaneous browsing experences on the same site, and that websites need to be a hell of a lot more flexible.
So I dont think Flat Design has just 'happened', a giant roadblock of usability and readability is being smashed down on the web, and flat design is just one of the tools we're using to break through.
Its an exciting time to be a designer!
- hektor9110
you guys are going to hate myspace...
- animatedgif0
Reading about this shit has given me so many laughs this year.
You can truly tell so many designers don't actually know anything about design and have just learned how to make some pretty buttons so this is somehow new and revolutionary to them. When really it's just life without layer styles
- Continuity0
@animatedgif
Too fucking right. For one thing, so-called flat design is by no means new in general ... anyone who's studied Swiss design will know this.
For another, in web design terms, even this isn't anything new. It was trendy for a while in the late 1990s, and again briefly in the early noughties.
Basically, from what I've observed over the years, there are three trends that cycle in web design:
1) Flat
2) Quasi sci-fi, 2advanced-stylee
3) Shiny Apple-stylee.My crack about 6pt aliased pixel fonts a few posts up actually wasn't that far off the mark, they've already seen their day twice. First time round about 2000 (in threeOh's heyday) and again when it was clear Flash was starting to die out. It wouldn't at all surprise me to see them come back in the next couple of years.
- Now I'm going to go make some chilli and lime chicken Ramen.Continuity
- toe_knee0
Why y'all mad? Its just the next generation discovering it