Flat Design

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    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.

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