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I suspect a lot of people will start to attribute bad designs to flat design because of its lower barrier to entry. There are likely to be a lot more people who
by lucisferre 13y ago
I suspect a lot of people will start to attribute bad designs to flat design because of its lower barrier to entry. There are likely to be a lot more people who are less than mediocre, in both visual and interaction design skills, applying it to poorly crafted and planned out sites and apps, and sadly the thing that will stand out the most is that they used a flat design, not that they simply designed poorly.
- libovness 13y agoI'm the author of the blog post so I'll weigh in too :-) I agree with you @lucisferre, and for this reason I think the flat design trend will become obsolescent at a faster rate than most design trends usually do. I also think that animation is going to become "the next big thing" and will be the primary differentiator between "meh" and "wow" apps.
- brudgers 13y agoI have by my desk Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook [1972 edition]. It contains symbols he collected over a lifetime - he died in '72. Rococo is the fad [Perlis says it comes before rubble]. Flat design dominates when clear communication becomes more important than signalling via fashion. There's a reason stop signs don't have gradient fills. http://www.amazon.com/Symbol-Sourcebook-Authoritative-International-Graphic/dp/0471288721 http://www.amazon.com/Symbol-Sourcebook-Authoritative-Intern... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dreyfuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dreyfuss
- flogic 13y agoI think it's here to stay in some form. If you think of UI's as a language, it seems a natural simplification of that language. Simplification is a normal and natural thing to happen to a language.
- epo 13y agoI disagree. Language is about expressiveness, simplification in language is about reducing expressiveness which is neither normal nor natural, nor a good thing. Basically, thinking of UI as a language in order to make sweeping statements about simplification is a really bad idea.
- flogic 13y agoI think we're talking about simplification in different contexts. Overtime symbols get simplified. That doesn't restrict the manner in which those symbols may be combined. Nor does it mean that, people won't embellish when they feel the need.
- alaskamiller 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul