This essay is excerpted from the ebook Web Design Trends 2015 & 2016 by Jerry Cao, Kamil Zieba, and Matt Ellis of UXPin, a UX design platform. Flat design rose in popularity pretty quickly back in ...

Despite its sudden popularity, flat design is not just some fly-by-night trend. It’s a substantial approach to Web design that’s rooted in practicality, and necessity. The balance between aesthetics ...

The iOS7’s UI is not fully flat; however, it is much flatter than the previous versions of the operating system. The company has moved away from glossy and beveled icons with strong drop shadows.

Facebook has given its main “f” logo icon a makeover, flattening the design by removing the pale blue bar along the bottom, which gave the icon a reflective sheen/slight 3D effect, as well as moving ...

The latest series of facelifts include Play, Play Store, Movies & TV, Music, Games, Books and Newsstand. Google has announced that the entire family of Google Play apps will now get redesigned icons, ...

What if you could transform your design projects with a single, versatile toolkit? Enter the world of flat graphic design, a style celebrated for its bold simplicity and unparalleled clarity. In the ...

Although it hasn't always gone smoothly, Windows is undergoing a period of change. It isn't just the way that Windows 10 is being developed and delivered, broken as that may be, Microsoft is also in ...

Flat design–and the ensuing rejection of excessive visual chrome and skeuomorphic metaphors–is easily one of the best things to happen to interface design in the last five years. On the whole, our ...

With the release of iOS7 just around the corner, clamor over the changes Jony Ive will institute is growing. The general consensus—on this site and elsewhere—is that Apple is about to get a flat ...