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A comment on Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will joi... by cosmotic on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:59AM (#46144606)
The flat UI trend started at Microsoft and Windows 8.
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Re:Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will joi... by hbn on Thursday December 04, 2025 @10:54AM (#46148977)
Google showed off the Holo design language in Android 3.0 which was a year before Windows 8.
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Re:Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will joi... by roryirvine on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:36PM (#46150345)
GNOME added the High-Contrast section to their HIG in 2003 - it prioritised simplicity, and used icons drawn with an "on-the-shelf" (ie. flat) perspective with overhead lighting.

Stylistically, it was a decade ahead of other flat designs - and was much more pleasant to use than the shiny 3D overload of KDE 3 / OSX Aqua / Windows XP.

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