Flat UI Sucks
1 10 Apr 2019 00:33 by u/galabad71
Ok, so I know i will get downvoted to all hell for this, but I really hate the flat UI. I see it everywhere now, Win10, android, all over the web. Ugh, just terrible!!!! sometimes it is almost impossible to tell where the "buttons" are to click.
11 comments
1 u/maxirus 10 Apr 2019 01:44
Win10 is "Metro Design." Android (Google Apps) is "Material Design." They are different though I'll admit derivative.
I actually prefer when UI/UX devs use a common framework like these; it makes for a consistent UX. Many custom UIs end up being shit.
Metro design is complete garbage. But Material and Flat have a ton of positive A/B testing.
0 u/yellowthread 10 Apr 2019 00:37
Yeah but the programmers worked really hard to learn how to set the default border on the button to "off," so now they're going to insist on proving it to you rather than learning something useful.
0 u/jqueso 10 Apr 2019 00:38
Really though aren't most modern applications laid out in a similar fashion? In almost any modern application you can intuitively know where where the buttons are and what to click.
0 u/yellowthread 10 Apr 2019 00:56
No and the office "ribbon" bullshit is still retarded nearly 10 years on.
0 u/Norm 10 Apr 2019 00:48
this has nothing to do with programming though? what programmer makes overall UI decisions? espcially for things like Win10, android and any major web company.
0 u/VoaterFraud 10 Apr 2019 01:43
Its a phase that hopefully will end soon. Bring back skeumorphism to UI design please.
0 u/rcb 10 Apr 2019 06:25
I hope so. There is this idea that making things harder for seniors would encourage the euthanasia trend...
0 u/unlimitedrulebook 23 Apr 2019 02:00
Skeumorphism is cancer. Please commit neck rope.
0 u/TheyLie 10 Apr 2019 07:29
I agree. It's also Chaotic. Makes no logical sense and the large empty spaces and space gaps drive me nuts.
0 u/LarryBagelstein 14 Apr 2019 17:55
The thing that most sucks recently in UI design is "mobile convergence". It's that brain damaged "one size fits all" mentality that lead to the original Windows 10 train-wreck and the awful GNOME shell redesign. Windows 7 UI was fine -- they just need to refine it, not start over from scratch.
0 u/oligarchsalamander 18 Apr 2019 21:44
The reason why flat ui is popular and why all studies point to it being better is a combination of things. I'm not an expert on the topic, but essentially your ui is supposed to be simple enough that anyone can mash it and it does the thing it's there for. Ideally your webpage has one button on it and nothing else essentially.
Flat ui forces designers to be more careful about the amount of crap they smear across your screen. You are meant to be drawn to key areas, with actionable buttons being usually of a certain colour. If you have something wildly complex you're probably doing something wrong in the design. If you have something wildly complex and you aren't doing something wrong with your design then lay it out so that actionable stuff is all inside of areas where everything in it looks the same and is all actionable.
Text works well for this everyone is familiar with links.
Flat ui is also popular because it doesn't look like retarded shit from before people knew what a computer screen was. The screen is not 3 dimensional, adding bevels and drop shadows does not make the screen 3 dimensional. I don't need software to insult my intelligence by pretending it's a control panel in space either.
Put some buttons on the screen, keep the UI tidy.