I truly believe there is some sort of industrial designer's cabal that decides what color schemes will be used that year. Just by looking at the devices in my h

I truly believe there is some sort of industrial designer's cabal that decides what color schemes will be used that year. Just by looking at the devices in my home I know which year they were designed based on the bezel alone. 2002: white, 2005: gunmetal, 2006-7: piano black, 2009: flat black. Even in computer GUI design we from the early OSX, XP Luna, candyland overdose to the extremely understated ICS and Windows 8 2D rectangles. I'm not a far of the flat trend but I'm not that hung up on skeumorphisms either. And I still don't understand how Mathias Duarte went from the truly, awesome interface in WebOS to this bland design in Holo. Put them next to each other and you wonder if he was just phoning it in when he got to Google.