Flat Design
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- d_rek0
Whatever happened to the time people made context-sensitive, audience appropriate design decisions?
All I see here is a bunch of trend-whoring.
- +1skwiotsmith
- exactlyhans_glib
- Trends can be audience appropriatepig
- No argument there pig.d_rek
- pig0
I suspect part of this is down to a lack of 'technical' training in college, definitely as far as European education is concerned.Young designers simply aren't as knowledgeable with software so find it more difficult to express themselves, all the while being very suspicious of gimmicky filters.
In my London-centric POV: I received almost no 'technical' training, it was all theory. I left uni with only basic software skills outside my comfort zone and had to learn on the job.
A lot of European education is all belt, no trousers. So the current trend is making the best of what the trendmakers 'know'.
- pango0
i've first notice the style around 2009 prox or maybe even earlier. I'm guilty of doing that style for a while too. I know it looks swiss but it's not exactly the same. mainly the pastel colour scheme differentiates it.
My only problem with it, is the name... "flat design"
really? that's the best name people came up with?- What did you expect from the sort of people who visit Dribbbleanimatedgif
- ohhhhhsnap0
"Though some decry flat user interfaces as pure fashion, or the obvious response to skeuomorphic trends, many designers have embraced the flat approach because the reduction in visual styling (such as gradients, drop shadows, and borders) creates interfaces that seem simpler and cleaner.
The problem is that most flat UIs are built with a focus on the provision of content, with transactional components (i.e., forms) receiving very little attention. What happens when flat and forms collide? User experiences can, and often do, suffer."
- d_rek0
@pig
Haha! That was pretty much my college experience. All theory. I remember an instructor explicitly telling our class that he was "Not here to teach us how to use software". Which was fine. I was probably more fluent with the tools of the trade at the time than he was. But there were definitely students that were not and I saw there 'formal' education lacking because they had difficulty executing ideas.
And I would even argue that a lot of the 'theory' that was taught in college was highly dubious at best. My design program was primarily built up around Bauhaus + Paul Rand theory of 'process' and exploration, with a little chance methodologies thrown in just to fuck with people.
I have found that very little of that actual theory I was taught in design school has been highly effective or even applicable in my professional career thus far. Which makes me question the usefulness of such instruction.
Anyway, I am not opposed to 'flat design'. I actually think windows8 is rather beautiful in it's simplicity, and that flatter UI experiences generally have a tighter focus on actual interaction design and not just pretty UI.
- I did like Rand's line on design being purely about shape, line, colour, form. Content/context should be taught separately.pig
- Shape, Line, Colour, Form are not exlusive to Rand though.d_rek
- Those are basic principles of any formal art education... covered in usually the most basic classes.d_rek
- not basic, but foundation classesd_rek
- Rand promoted rationale in design process more than anythingd_rek
- I just like how he differentiated from actually designing vs. it's context. Students (like me) can get lost in context very easily.pig
- whatthefunk0
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: August 5, 2013
Tablet Usability
Summary: Flat design and improperly rescaled design are the main threats to tablet usability, followed by poor gestures and workflow.
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/…- Look at meeeee,
i'maNATTTTTENTIOOON WHORRRREGeorgesIV - he's totally right. some 'flat design you don't know what to click... Outlook.com for instance.monNom
- Look at meeeee,
- i_monk0
"Whatever happened to the time people made context-sensitive, audience appropriate design decisions?" – d_rek
The same thing that happened to the time clients would pay for it.
- jaylarson0
history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes
- doesnotexist0
- it just makes sense when your dealing with html and responsive layoutsset
- YOU'RE
X_Xset - stuff was done this way because of print limitationshans_glib
- it wasn't, this is after all the crazy victorian printing techniques.doesnotexist
- bulletfactory0
- Still shitEightyDeuce
- oh, like every color in the rainbow. how do they come up with this shit analysis?lambsy
- I played with ios7 on the weekend, it's actually pretty awesome. haters gonna hate.inteliboy
- utopian0
benfal bump
- instrmntl0
Flat vs Realism
http://www.flatvsrealism.com/- (scrolly html5 site)instrmntl
- I hate that whole scroll thing, it's like having to manually drag a youtube video progress barset
- Agreed.instrmntl
- scrolls like shitjaylarson
- This is some well crafted pointless college shitcannonball1978
- OSFA0
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