Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty

Re:Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncerta... by exodust on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:11AM (#15165870)

> "Explain to me how adding an underline to a link is somehow not-flat? "

"Hey, I'm definitely a link"

"I may or may not be a link".

As the study explains, link colour difference was enough to balance the scales. It's when link text looks the same as normal text you have a problem.

Flat design can go too far and everything looks the same, requiring more effort from user to figure out what's what, and also remember what's what for next time. I find this with iOS, my memory of the interface is quite poor ever since they introduced flat design. I'm only an occasional user of my iPad, but still... the flatness is irritating.

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Re:Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncerta... by namuol on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:22AM (#15165898)

> Flat design can go too far and everything looks the same

Flat design, done well, makes signaling easier because there's literally less visual noise. Bad design is just bad design.

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Re:Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncerta... by exodust on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:32PM (#15169627)

Sure, if there's sufficient contrast within your flat design, I'm fine with that. Lots of good examples of this in 'material design' where buttons are easily recognised, with nice colourful backgrounds. When buttons get wishy-washy grey in some attempt to "blend in", then we have bad flat design.

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