Gregory's Serveran uncomfortable few months in 2013 where flat design was *around* but was not yet mainstream so designers were only flirting with flatness: a highly specific thread
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“those all look pretty iOS 6-ish, sam. i think that's just standard for the period” i hear that but I raise you the Twitter Hashtag Music app. my point being it was a fun (albeit short) transitional period for visual design where we got our cake and ate it too. the readability of flat while retaining the personality of earlier design.  @samhenrigold I maintain that the Zune HD (2010ish) was actually peak UI and every trend since then has brought us further from god.  @samhenrigold perhaps the internet has just conditioned me for negativity, but I initially thought you were saying that these designed had committed some major sin by pursuing flatness without really understanding it. And I kept thinking "I don't know, I kind of like it!" and wondering what was wrong with me 😁 Glad to know you like it too 👍   @samhenrigold my first summer being a PM, I had an app in this semi-flat style with a full design finished and build in progress. That was early June 2014. And then WWDC happened. Design scrapped.  @samhenrigold Twitterrific 5 was released in December 2012, and we definitely had our cake and ate it all up. https://web.archive.org/web/20121221012859/http://twitterrific.com/ios @samhenrigold this reminded me how much I miss the days when Feedly wasn't using 'AI' to alert me that the article I was reading about a rocket launch 'is about a product launch'.  @samhenrigold I loved MailBox. I remember being on the waitlist when it launched. Favourite from that period was probably Sunrise Calendar though 😫 @samhenrigold This was literally alllll of my web / app designs from that time period haha! 1px border. 1px inner shadow. Slight gradient. 5px corners. Slight drop-shadow. Absolutely loved designing and building 'em! Now it's just solid flat box, solid flat box, solid flat box...mayyybe some rounded corners. Done.  @samhenrigold The Vesper app was another proto-flat app. https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4402898/vesper-app-for-iphone-john-gruber-brent-simmons-dave-wiskus @adamrice four days before the iOS 7 public reveal, that’s gotta suck. still love it, though |
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