Flat Design
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This conversation is really depressing. I was hoping we could talk and celebrate this new trend, rather than be chastised by elitist desginers who feel that the 'flat' style gaining popularity is ruining the world.
Flat design is democratic, its a beautiful thing, aside from the colours and layout. It renders the web readable to a whole new group of people, cast out BY US with our 10pt pixel fonts and hacky HTML UI.
Its about users getting in, getting the info, and getting out, fast, with as little friction from the design as possible.
Generally speaking, in the modern world we live in guys, if a 3-D-blingly-sparkly video enhanced 2X retina mega object is getting in the way of your content, and the 'design' is visible, then thats not good design.
Good Systems are invisible, but good design is beautiful. Good design is fast, and it just makes sense.
So the lowest tier of web users in the world... Those with not good english, those who have one eyeball, the colourblind, and little kids. Think of the little kids who use the internet as their primary source of learning.
Now they can actually read and understand the information on the web, because the bloody design's out of the way.
Again, its not about how Flat design looks, its about what it DOES.