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What is Flat Design?
There must be times when you’ve visited a website, or used an app, that is bombarded with ornaments. Ornaments are used to decorate a user interface; to make it catchy to the eye with the aid of elaborate designing techniques.
Examples of such ornaments include fancy 3-d buttons, the use of shadows, and extravagant illustrations that are animated in an attempt to bring “real life” onto a screen. Such graphical designs are indeed very appealing to the eye.
However, they compromise on a more essential aspect of user experience – usability. For a user interface that is highly user-friendly, it is essential for it to be simple. And it is for simplicity, that graphic designers prefer flat design.
Print Design – Is Print Dead [2019]
Many refer to is as a “dying industry”, but it most definitely has aspects that are not replaceable no matter how technologically dependent society becomes. Yes, the days of the phone book are obsolete. Google can find what you’re looking for in a matter of seconds.