Man. After LayerVault's post, the term has taken on a life of it's own. Minimalism never precluded the use of effects or interactions to create depth (and I'd

Man. After LayerVault's post, the term has taken on a life of it's own. Minimalism never precluded the use of effects or interactions to create depth (and I'd argue that "Flat Design" never precluded this either). Just because skeumorphism was one extreme, doesn't mean everything has to use another extreme as a baseline. Using the "flat" end of the spectrum is entirely unnecessary. A name isn't neessary for everything... Also, for what it's worth, I much prefer Andrew Kim's characterization of the spectrum as skeumorphic to digital [1]. Digital doesn't have the connotations that "flat" has [1]see: http://bit.ly/VfSQ7T http://bit.ly/VfSQ7T