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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by badfrog on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:06PM (#19267717)
> What is the deal with flat design these days? I cannot figure out where to click. Have you used Windows 10 recently or a trendy website lately? It's a disaster in terms of UX.

Google's Material design system actually works well when implemented correctly. If you look at Inbox, you can see at least three distinct layers on the home screen with drop shadows clearly indicating the hierarchy.

The problem is that lots of people tried to copy this system without understanding why it works and ended up with unusable messes.

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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:11PM (#19267750)
Material Design was an evolution from the flat design wave (it's still flatter than peak skeumorphism, but it's not really flat.) I'm not sure that the continuing flat design trend is so much of a bad copy of MD as a trend which preceded MD and continued outside of it.
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