Off topic: Flat UI Look

"All Motor Is Best Motor" (acidicheartburn)
04/17/2014 at 00:15 • Filed to: None

Linky:

http://www.dailytech.com/Project+Moonsh…

There's a big trend right now in the user interface department that involves making interface elements look more "flat" instead of 3 dimensional. I hate it.

I think it looks bad and makes things harder to read and identify at a glance. Windows 8's new UI is awful in this regard. Things look drab and boring, without much easy to see separation between interface elements. In that article I linked, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! summed it up better than I ever could (scroll down past the article and his comment is posted right below it).

Hell, the new Kinja has followed this same UI theme, and I personally hate it (aside from terribly glitchy functionality).

Here's the lovely art deco !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for your time.

DISCUSSION (2)

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > All Motor Is Best Motor
04/17/2014 at 00:27

I think it ultimately depends. I do really like the new trend of flatness, but that's after witnessing the ultimate pit-stain of skeuomorphism that was the Find-My-Friends app on the iPhone.

This article below describes the next step of the flat design trend, post-flat (or whatever).

http://blog.collectiveray.com/post/821086226…

I think it also depends on how you approach it.

This unofficial apple store/website redesign I think is really, really good.

http://ambercreative.co/experiments/ap…

I don't really like the new Kinja either, no opinion relative to the earlier versions; I think I'm going to do a unofficial redesign cause I'm bored and Kinja could be so much more than what it is.

All Motor Is Best Motor > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
04/17/2014 at 01:00

I just see flat UI elements right next to each other as almost like a collage you may have made as a kid for school. A bunch of colors and images and text slapped right next to each other. The first blog article you linked pretty much sums up exactly how I feel about UI's. Elements of both are probably the best option.