How to stop the flat design trend?

I imagine it costs less to produce simple 2D graphics than complex 3D graphics, so this is probably permanent.

>How to stop the flat design trend?
you can't stop an idea whose time has come

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Hi Google

Material design is the best thing to happen to front end software design since multicolor rendering.

how long until the shading is gone?

Looks good

We went from 3D to 2D
the next logical design choice is to go from 2D to 1D

I'm waiting for when you can physically feel different downloaded textures on your computer screen.

>the next logical design choice is to go from 2D to 1D

Confirmed for totally epic

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skeuomorphism is only there to make things easier for the boomers

What is that thing on the left?

As sick as I'm getting of it this is honestly true

Material Design has almost completely shifted front end design across the entirety of technology and you spend way less time figuring out how shit works when every app and website looks the exact same

No more icons

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Material or Flat is the real question.

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Its zoomers that do that shit, adults have no interest in pretty lgbt lighting

Material, but that's not how Google's "Material" design actually looks.

I prefer material over flat depending on the case. If I'm designing an application front-end I usually stick to flat, but for promotional and marketing materials I prefer material, the addition of shadows and light gradients into your design can really help emphasize various content and give you a bit more creative freedom and style.

the green shadow doesnt match up with the green
same with the yellow and the green

>morph ball browser

>this ugly bullshit or that ugly bullshit

angry boomers: the thread

flat

not flat enough

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We wait for a new trend, I wonder what it will be.

You're ugly bullshit.

Left is what you get when you ask an intern to design a cool logo. Right is what you get when you aggregate 10 years worth of UI response research to design a logo that's unmistakable and instantly identifiable among dozens of others.

Souless vs soulessless

Perfection

I don't think one will be coming soon. Material design is pinnacle for small screens.

Fire all hipsters and Indians from tech companies.

make something that looks better

What's the difference besides color?

the shallow gradients

i like the new one in this case, but it's true
there's too many flat icons that looks like shit
google looks fine desu

>tfw used to rice windows 7 with flat themes / icons
>tfw used to rice android to flat themes
>tfw wished flat themes became the norm
Ironically, I hate this now.

name a better design standard then

Material

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>can't figure out what the buttons are because it's flatshit

This is perfect.
The 666 in the logo makes my peepee hard.
Heil Zion!

go back to /a/ son
or if you dont hang out with those guys, go back to your ironic weeb group

Create something better

Ask Apple to switch to glassy, 3D icons. Everyone else will follow suit within a year.

Indeed

so it got even worse

sad

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I don't care if icons and buttons are flat, square, skeumorphic or glassy. What I hate is that the amount of UI switches and buttons are scaled back to promote a design aesthetic. These days settings dialogs on programs give you a big window with at most 5-10 options at the center to choose from while most of the window space is blank, for no good reason other than aesthetic. I don't want artists and marketing specialists to have more say in determining how a program functions than the actual engineers behind it.

Pic related is an example of a good settings dialog window.

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the left one is hideous

>Embrace its superiority.
>Extend, everything flat and minimal.
>???
>Complain about the new trend.

>south park construction paper design vs. modern flat
Flat please.

It doesn't have to look better, it's unique and distinguished, like icons should be.
With flat everything looks like a bland and can be made in 5 minutes in paint by telentless pajeets

rofl no, that shit has way too many tabs

Found the Zoomer
Took the bait

The next logical choice is to go 2Deez nuts

3D logos can FUCK off

The gradient on "Material" gives it a bit more depth than on "Flat"

Too many for your small zoomer brain? lol

based and flatpilled

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I like flat design. like any design it can also be done bad, but generally I prefer it to glossy 3D.

this, makes it possible to reduce image size

Apple has some 3D ray-traced interface with real ambient lighting in making supposedly to differentiate itself from normie cheap flat window/android look and this will be the death of flat since android will start copying it in ~6 months.

use chromium u gay

Stop being autistic and realize flat is better

>become graphic designer
>make skeuomorphism design that actually looks good (impossible btw)
> ???
>profit

they're both lazy pieces of shit

Is the one on the left supposed to be a Simon toy?

>(impossible btw)

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Will we ever go home, bros?

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It's just a trend. Wait 10 years or so and it will go away for the new hot thing.

In that image alone I see 3 different eras of icon design, from 95 to 2000 to XP.

Left looks like a tide pod UFO hologram bop-it. Right doesn't really look like anything, it's a symbol that means "google chrome" and nothing else. And that's what it's supposed to be.

God fucking damn it.

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just what it needed, to look like it was thrown together in 10 minutes by someone who just started learning a vector image editor
the basic design isn't even simplified, it's still a bird over an envelope, it no less visually stimulating, it's just ... crappified

just fuck my shit up, I don't even care anymore

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Boomer designs were better

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Why would you want to stop it? Everyone knows that 2D is superior to 3D.

Design is the matter of opinion, the current popular opinion is that everything should look flat.

Design in UIs is a matter of functionality for the user. Yes, anyone with a brain can navigate something that has been flattened to death, but you can't deny that some flat designs are incredibly non-intuitive and leave you searching a new menu or screen for interactive elements. The result is that it making things slower and more frustrating to use, even if only slightly so. This means they have prioritized a fleeting design style over most efficient functionality.

Do I want my shit to look ugly with overdesigned crap all over the place? No. But there can be a balance between making things less garish and still retaining enough of a 3D element to assist human eyes in digesting a screen full of options.

I imagine this was made by the same guy that did all the cheesy hacker effects in crappy crime dramas from the 200Xs

I've got yer 1D right here

Hail Moloch

>You instantly knew the right image was Google Chrome.

So it still works then?

Why would you put other unrelated criteria on a logo?

this but uniro

>1D
>512x6
Are you even trying?

I need forcefeedback VR to get to the point where I can feel those icons.

Ridicule.
twitter.com/HumansOfFlat

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why it looks nice

t. lazy flatshit designer

>" The cut-out aesthetic is beginning to achieve a level of saturation where its ubiquity undermines its beauty."
this can't be real, this is a painting by a 2 year old.
>"A few years after graduating from school, Marleigh Culver found herself working as a designer for a startup where she was tasked with creating assets that fit the brand’s minimalist, clean aesthetic."
no seriously
guys?
>"In that time, Culver developed a recognizable style: Imperfectly drawn shapes; muted colors; simple but pleasing compositions."
this can't be real. what's going on, /really/?

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