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ghabbarazattalov
October 19th, 2014, 11:58 PM
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To see the full Design: Behance (http://www.behance.net/gallery/20618117/Ubuntu-Design-Concept)

JazzPotato
October 22nd, 2014, 04:03 PM
Very nice! I must say I am developing a penchant for flat design :DDDD

tgalati4
October 22nd, 2014, 06:59 PM
Can someone please explain to me the benefits of "flat" design? I remember Motif Widgets which were very flat in the mid 1980's and they were useful for X-Windows on Unix workstations. They didn't have much embellishment because the low graphics capability (most of these early workstations were monochrome). Now with all of the processing power and high resolution displays, we have lost the 3D shadows, bumps, lumps, and gloss that made the desktop look somewhat functional--like a real machine with buttons and levers.

It's both retro and confusing at the same time. Maybe I'm just too old to change. OS X Yosemite has undergone a similar flat restyling. I don't know if I like it any better than Window's Metro. Perhaps I will just stick with Gnome2 (MATE) and wait for 3D buttons to become cool again. I do have several pairs of large Serengeti sunglasses that seem to be back in style. I'm glad I still have them. Dorky-looking for 10 years, cool-looking for a year. And the cycle repeats.

Obviously these forums need a revamp. Too many shadows, not enough flatness.

DoubleClicker
November 5th, 2014, 05:01 AM
Flat design is a plague infecting the brains of designers in epidemic proportions, hopefully the open source community will largely remain immune.

ofnuts
November 5th, 2014, 06:27 PM
The Motif/X-Windows look was awful but wasn't flat. And due to the limitations of the displays of that era (1024x768 was big...) it was mostly grayscale and had a coarse definition. MacOS (and whatever was running the Lisa) wasn't much better. IIRC Windows was the first desktop to really use color.

The current "flat design" fashion is the recognition that:


computers are computers
people are now sufficiently used to them
they no longer need to look like something else to be understood (skeuomorphism)
they can therefore have their own codes.


Another incentive is that 3D takes space, and coincidentally the flat design got in fashion with the small screens of smartphones and tablets.