It can’t be a coincidence that “flat” design became hip right around the time “HTML/CSS/JS for EVERYTHING” trend really started to gain momentum. Web tech is fa

It can’t be a coincidence that “flat” design became hip right around the time “HTML/CSS/JS for EVERYTHING” trend really started to gain momentum. Web tech is far more inclined toward flat, uncomplicated designs than it is the sort of detailed, nuanced, multi-dimensional designs that used to be popular. It’s trivial to create silky, sophisticated UIs in native software, but that segment of software engineers haven’t been the ones loudly blogging or writing lengthy design diatribes for quite some time now.