Say No to the New Flat

OK, I started the draft in June 2013, when iOS 7 is flatten out. My complaints about the flat style, started by Microsoft on its Metro UI are:

• You can't tell whether a text is a text or a button
• Without depth, most often represented by shadow effects, you lose an axis to show the visual hierarchy
• The extreme skeumorphism often times stand in the way of proper use of the digital media.Take the example of tearing off pages as a way of switching months, and imagining you are flipping back to some time in the past, do you expect the teared off pages to be unteared? How would that happen in the real world? Using this metaphor will put yourself in a corner. But going to another extreme doesn't make things better either. The Utopian/Puritan thinking often starts with good intentions, but never actually works in the real world.