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Re:The Flat Sink by pixl97 on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @01:56PM (#4970365)
but I don't think that removing gradients and drop shadows necessarily results in designs that "scare users away."

Try using Office 2013. It's white and flat (even flatter in Win8 over Win7, you lose refrence to what the 'tools' part and the data part is. It is not inviting at all, unless you dig in to the options and try to put some slightly different colors/textures on it.

Re:The Flat Sink by jongold on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:01PM (#4971145)
It fails because it's been designed by idiots, not because it's 'flat'
Re:The Flat Sink by jblock on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:54AM (#4972740)
Can't stress this enough. Bad people using a well-thought-out design aesthetic can still make something that looks like garbage.