Am I the only one who doesn't love the whole flat trend? It seems like once the novelty wears off, it becomes bland more than anything else.
Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
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#43Very nice looking. Bootstrap 3 is actually headed towards a flatter look (a little like this), so buttons and the nav-bar don't have gradients in the newest version of Bootstrap by default.
Where can I preview Bootstrap 3?
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#44I really love the flat design trend. Does anyone know of any good photoshop/illustrator tutorials that teach this new trend?
I laughed out loud :)
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#45I think it's a bit too raw - unpolished at places. The "Messages" menu item for example; the red notification circle with the count of unread messages is off in padding. Some icons are a bit fuzzy when they should be clear ( http://dribbble.com/shots/492245-Idiot-Tip-2 , if you don't follow me). Why do people insist on creating a ton of bootstraps, straps or "Web UI Kits"? Let me rephrase the question, why do people…
To be fair, you only notice when it does look the same - you don't notice when someone has customized it successfully.
On the majority of cases, not true. The stink of a bootstrap is still there even if it's mostly over-designed. But that's not the point, the point is there's so many sites out there with just bootstrap - nothing else - and that is bloody horrible. Developers should stop inventing ways to be more lazy and just do what they do.
SASS, LESS, Bootstraps, insert_whatever_thing are just tools that ideally help to be more productive, but a few years in and you rarely see any raw code or from-scratch work. And they won't care either, because "it's more productive" is a perfect argument.
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#46Am I the only one who doesn't love the whole flat trend? It seems like once the novelty wears off, it becomes bland more than anything else.
I like flat design, it's basically an extension/re-branding of minimalist design and that's not going anywhere so I don't really see this as a fad.
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#47I think it's a bit too raw - unpolished at places. The "Messages" menu item for example; the red notification circle with the count of unread messages is off in padding. Some icons are a bit fuzzy when they should be clear ( http://dribbble.com/shots/492245-Idiot-Tip-2 , if you don't follow me). Why do people insist on creating a ton of bootstraps, straps or "Web UI Kits"? Let me rephrase the question, why do people…
If I were a consumer and I had to choose between my company spending manhours implementing a design that's going to probably look derivative anyway (because let's be honest, its not designers using these things, its developers) or spending manhours implementing a new feature that delivers me value, I'd choose the latter.
I don't think anyone is advocating that you should use Bootstrap three years into a product lifestyle, but it helps deliver an MVP.
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#48Am I the only one who doesn't love the whole flat trend? It seems like once the novelty wears off, it becomes bland more than anything else.
Flat trend? Flat design has been around for decades, i.e. Josef Muller Brockmann
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#49I think it's a bit too raw - unpolished at places. The "Messages" menu item for example; the red notification circle with the count of unread messages is off in padding. Some icons are a bit fuzzy when they should be clear ( http://dribbble.com/shots/492245-Idiot-Tip-2 , if you don't follow me). Why do people insist on creating a ton of bootstraps, straps or "Web UI Kits"? Let me rephrase the question, why do people…
why do people want to make the web look the same? - to leverage the good work of others making things look nice. To allow users to easily know how things work, because they are familiar with them.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, you only notice when it does look the same - you don't notice when someone has customized it successfully.
On the majority of cases, not true. The stink of a bootstrap is still there even if it's mostly over-designed. But that's not the point, the point is there's so many sites out there with just bootstrap - nothing else - and that is bloody horrible. Developers should stop inventing ways to be more lazy and just do what they do. SASS, LESS, Bootstraps, insert_whatever_thing are just tools that ideally help to be more pr…
You seem to miss the point that many of those sites wouldn't have been launched in the first place if a way to make it look half-decent, fast, wasn't widely available. Making a website, especially a web app, takes some breaking inertia, if you've ever tried you'll know, and anything that helps you in getting it out is one step further from not launching at all. Given popularity, the design can be amended. A non-launch has nothing to amend, and is, if nothing else, a tiny loss for the web.