Flat UI Design – A showcase of the best examples of the flat UI design

by dshap • 12 years ago

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lucisferre• 12 years ago

What am I missing here? These examples all look nearly the same and this doesn't seem to showcase anything really.

User7198• 12 years ago

Agreed, there's nothing creative or inspiring here. If anything, it reminds me why I don't want to create a site with a washed out fullscreen background, with white text over top, since there are a million other sites using the same format.

EC1• 12 years ago

Everything is blurry on Retina. I'd suggest pivoting from "flat design" to just a design site. None of these really have anything in common except for being just semi decently designed.

Id much rather have a showcase of 10 BEAUTIFUL designs / month, curated, than just a giant gallery of random sites you picked off the web.

DenisM• 12 years ago

Speaking of which, anyone has experience with testing flat design against older audiences? Like, 70 year old non-tech users? I'm quite worried that skeumorphic design is more intuitive for this type of user, and latest move to flat design, especially in iOS, will leave them behind. However I don't have enough data to go on, so find myself uncertain and indecisive. Thanks for any help!

grokster05• 12 years ago

I had been thinking this exact same thought about my ageing mother and the iPad I gave her which someone helpfully soon upgraded from nice 6 to 'flat' iOS 7: suddenly all the cues were gone, the button edges, the hints about what was mere text or label and what was functional.

She could no longer guess whether any element was live or not, and the colours were now merely decorative as often as they were significant.

Gen Zero can learn anything, they can survive on a UI diet of white on white; but, like designing for disability, designing for older non-tech users means it works for everyone, except perhaps Jony Ive and the minimalistas (who may 'discover' this flat dullness is not cool next week or next year anyway).

Flat UI Design – A showcase of the best examples of the flat UI design

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