> 1. Flat UI will continue to grow God, I hope not. Yes, Win8 was first in that regard and look how well that's doing. Especially the flat, tiled mess that is

> 1. Flat UI will continue to grow God, I hope not. Yes, Win8 was first in that regard and look how well that's doing. Especially the flat, tiled mess that is metro. Where even the most die hard Windows fans who try to sell you on Win8 say "When you use start8, it's not that bad." Also, dumping skeuomorphism in iOS7 does not mean you just have to a) crank up the brightness to 11 and b) apparently break out MS Paint and design all your interfaces in it. Is the stitched leather not making sense in a calender application? Yes. Did they really need to go ahead and remove every bit of polish from the UI? No. Just look at iBooks. They left the page turning gesture including animation of a page turning. Apparently there is the line Apple drew. But what was wrong in using a nice book shelf as a "background image"? You can't stress that enough. Many applications have background images. And a shelf for books makes sense. What do they have now? Nothing. Why, nothing at all. The book covers are now floating in a white void. Apparently that is what "flat" and "modern" design is all about. So I guess the next iteration of iBooks will see the multi colored book covers removed and replaced by white, 90 degree rectangles in which the titles are written in a uniform black font. Cause that is what is considered "modern" now by the looks of it. If there is a god, people will get bored of the flat, 1990 looking UIs very quickly. And why wouldn't they? How long can you look at interfaces like that and not be reminded of your old DOS editor. At least that used ASCII art to give you a drop shadow on your window.