Prediction: In the future Flat UI will be perceived similarly as bad retro "80s sci-fi" (like "Hackerman" from Kung Fury wearing a dataglove, etc), in the same

Prediction: In the future Flat UI will be perceived similarly as bad retro "80s sci-fi" (like "Hackerman" from Kung Fury wearing a dataglove, etc), in the same sense that it will only have a "nostalgia" aesthetic, not because it was any good. Once we move past this madness, after a while we'll look back and see it for the unusable "mystery meat navigation" (remember that from the early 2000s web?) that it was. Trying too hard to look "clean". In as far as Flat UI was usable, it's because of its ubiquity and that after a while we had to get used to it and somehow managed to obtain a somewhat common UI vocabulary. Like the "hamburger menu", completely unintuitive until you learn what it means. I'm afraid we're gonna be stuck with that one for a while. It was supposed to depict a super-stylized drop-down menu, right? Except that some menus are now a grid of icons. ... and in Chrome the menu is three vertical dots, because ummm it makes people turn their head while thinking "...", I guess. (I was looking at Firefox when I described the hamburger menu). At least the gear-icon for config/settings makes some sense.