I'm always the odd man out when people praise design here. To me the UI is boring and cliché. Flat and minimal principals don't work in every circumstance, as e

I'm always the odd man out when people praise design here. To me the UI is boring and cliché. Flat and minimal principals don't work in every circumstance, as evidenced by the Rdio desktop app and others like it where you end up glancing past features because they aren't prominent enough (i.e. they look like every other element on the app). There needs to be depth and hierarchy as applications become more complex and elements need to stand out from each other. Instead of trying to re-invent what email is, just make it easier to do what people use it for. Make it smart and intuitive. The problem I have with all of these designer showcases is that how it functions is ultimately more important than how it looks. Neither this nor Mail.app showed any functionality that wasn't available in some way or another from any other client I've used.