I'm guilty of jumping on the flat button band wagon a few years ago. I manage an internal application ui team at a pretty big company and despite their having

I'm guilty of jumping on the flat button band wagon a few years ago. I manage an internal application ui team at a pretty big company and despite their having less affordance than before, there hasn't been complaints. Regardless, for our new version of UI patterns, I'm bringing back the rounded corners. Guess what? Pages are already looking more usable, and frankly easier to design. It takes a very talented designer to create a beautiful looking page using flat, minimal motifs. And truth be told, most non-designers don't share the same aesthetics. But if you throw in rounded corners and very subtle gradients and shadows... and all of a sudden, designing a good looking page is much easier. And frankly, that's what I need in pressure cooker enterprise environment.