Fuck flat
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- monospaced0
I dunno, I've been doing flat design for over a decade.
- but we always just called it designmonospaced
- get you, HIPSTER!1!1!111!!!!!
;)hans_glib - Trueset
- jasontroj0
I thought this was going to be about boobs...
- set0
lol at google and microsoft creating flat design.
What a colossal shower of arseholes
- lessfloor1
- oh boyCygnusZero4
- oh, boyset
- no, boyCygnusZero4
- Two backs?BusterBoy
- BaskerviIle0
There is no 'flat' only unflat things.
Flat is the baseline. Don't give it a name, just accept it as how things should be. What people are now calling 'flat design' I would just call design. It's all the bevely, shiny stuff that should be referred to as something 'other'.
Now we have 3D movies in IMAX etc that doesn't mean we should refer to all films at 'flat films':"Oh, have you seen this new trend for flat films, it's totally a reaction to all the 3D films coming out...they're so over! It's all about flat films now."
- twokids0
I always thought that Apple's interface design was overrated. I hated the icons - shiny, bulbous things - ugly.
- omg0
- Fax_Benson0
I heard your mum lives in a fuck flat.
- gramme0
The web's getting rather homogenous now, innit?
- unless content gets flat...doesnotexist
- Yes, and I partly attribute to decline of flashhotroddy
- It's a flattening of imaginationukit2
- doesnotexist0
i think it will put more emphasis on the need for better content, thus making content better and showcasing it more, in a clear way.
- mg330
The design that I've always been driven to is simple, minimal design that accomplishes it's task without clutter, excess, and confusion. Before I even hardly had a clue about design, I knew what I was drawn to, and a lot of it had to do with architectural diagrams, Swiss style, Scandinavian furniture, some Russian avant garde work, and some images in the Merz to Emigre and Beyond book about avant garde magazine design. I do realize that plenty of avant garde aspects conflict with what I said above about lack of confusion and excess, because some of that stuff was definitely hard to digest.
But I think it's more of the minimal use of color, shapes, and textures that I was really drawn to. I love textures, but simple, consistent ones. Most of my sites have always had some kind of minimal texture to them.
What I love about flat design is when the typography is well executed. It becomes the real style of the page. Content looks great when it's connected to good typography, and when a clear hierarchy of importance is established with it.
- identity0
Personally, I maintain that design is best when it's invisible and emphasizes the content its for. Regardless of medium, this is a true thing. The perception that design is a practice of aesthetics belies its true intent; solving visual problems on an individual basis.
- this is an ideal unfortunately.fadein11
- still attainable thoughdoesnotexist
- That's not always the job of the things that's being created, though. It has to be blended with an artfulness.mikotondria3
- ukit20
Regarding homogeneity or generic look of design, there's kind of a dynamic that has always gone on between standardization and originality. Before the printing press was invented, books were all like painstakingly crafted works of individual art. Stuff like this:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educat…
Ever since then, we've been moving further and further in the direction of standardization and mass production, to the point where today you can assemble an entire website in five minutes out of a template and a bunch of preexisting stock elements. But it's actually a good thing from the point of view of being able to share and disseminate information.
Eventually design will probably become totally obsolete and you will just select a menu option in Photoshop that says Create Website > Style > Flat > Pastel Color Scheme > Publish
- and look at the varying species of books. they don't all look the same.doesnotexist
- ohhhhhsnap0
every time i see this thread i read "fuck that"
- 20020
- detritus3
"It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower
—Put in some chrome and shade"- https://s3.amazonaws…detritus
- interesting.omg
- The buttons on Neilson's site are flatBaskerviIle
- ha, quite - and links are not in 90s Blue with Purple for visited links? Pfft, hypocrisy!detritus
- Neilson reporting on what people are used to, and not necessarily on what's better and more user friendly and useful...Krassy
- ...Sure -- if users had only seen/used bubbly buttons, of course once you intro flat some will be "confused" and prefer what they're used to. Not a valid meaureKrassy
- So past experience shouldn't have any relevance on current experience? That seems like a dangerous and presumptious stand point.detritus
- I think it's basically correct in stating that 'flat featureless landscapes with barely highlighted critical elements are hard to navigate'. That's just logic.detritus
- Past experience should facilitate progress and improvement. Otherwise, why drive cars when we already ride horses. :-)Krassy
- The argument for flat is that minimalist design reduces visual noise, therefore allowing for content -- the most important element -- to stand out.Krassy
- flat design also benefits from strong typography, but, thus depends on user's to understand type hierarchy and such. there's good/bad flat design everywhere.mg33
- It's over used and underconsidered - eg. some parts of Win10 are an absolute mess of invisibility because the language is deployed inconsiderately...detritus
- not taking into account the screen as a whole, rather relegating design to within windows, which end up as over white, under explained masses of inscrutabilitydetritus
- if a user 'doesn't understand typographic hierachies' whose fault is it where they're deployed anyway and consequently misunderstood?detritus
- I don't know - 'flat' and marterial design, etc, is a great basis or foundation, but it is not and should not be the be-all and end-all.detritus
- "thus depends on user's to understand type hierarchy and such"...lolz, I hope you are high or drunk :) users don't understand shit, that's why experts get jobsuan
- Designers design for designers most of the time. Normal people dont care/know shit about design.Bennn