Flat Design
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- mikotondria30
...if only there was a way of having the whole screen as simple, scalable vectors, with, say, I/O, audio and video built into the platform. Animation, tweening and external libraries would be great, as would a graphical time-line to develop with hardly any coding...
- They could call it Flashi_monk
- ...cough..albums
- ..yes, and browers could display it natively, as a plug in would kill it dead.mikotondria3
- yes, and all the type would be searchablemonospaced
- Maaku0
Good thing this trend is becoming more popular, was about time... those fucking Ironman-suit-look-a-like effects on every UI element are not cool anymore, iOs designers....
- pig0
- This got praise, but there's hardly anything to guide your eye. It gets VERY text heavy, requiring you to read everythingpig
- Wow they really cover everything
https://www.gov.uk/b…ukit2 - looks like a temporary page from a domain name host ...benfal99
- thats what i was thinking, a ad link landing page... whatever you call themuuuuuu
- where that pic of the girl on every page like those? pink shirt with a backpack, blonde hair if i remember well...benfal99
- @benfal99
http://www.urlesque.…ukit2 - http://www.parkerito…ukit2
- haha thanksbenfal99
- uuuuuu0
I think mobile devices are really what have ushered this in to the mainstream.
this stuff,
http://www.qbn.com/topics/680246…
http://www.qbn.com/topics/680246…- no sense adding texture and flourishes on smaller scales.uuuuuu
- i_monk0
Any non-UI/non-web examples?
- https://www.google.d…mekk
- look at any fashion campaign, most are flat now no bevels or dropsdoesnotexist
- Irafis0
One of the best Apple App of 2012 was a flat design game.
http://www.ologame.com/
- wagshaft0
If anything, I've picked up a good word in the comments section from one of these many links:
“skeuomorphic” – A skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object made to resemble another material or technique. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal, or a software calendar application which displays the days organized on animated month pages in imitation of a paper desk calendar.
- dMullins0
Largely, this conversation is couched in web and mobile, and not so much print. I personally love that a 'flat' approach to websites and apps is where we're at this year. It's a nice departure from the skeuomorphic garbage, or vintage trends, that designers were hooked on last year and the year before. Technology is really the reason for the trend. Work with any designer who is on top of their shit, and the number question you will hear them ask is, "How performant will this be?" iOS and Android now support some really dynamic 3D transitions and animations, which become really a bitch to pull off with the wild and crazy over-the-top designs people have been designing in recent years.
This return to basics is much needed in the industry, and I for one completely support a more performant, responsive, and simple-but-attractive web/mobile world.
- "Work with any developer who is on top of their shit," I meant to say.dMullins
- itsricky0
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.
- prophetone0
personally, i think it's the cat's ass
- ukit20
What are the implications for companies that just launched new 3D, bevelled version of their logos?
- 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