While very pretty, these controls make me feel like an old person who is learning how to use a computer for the first time. I have no idea how anything will respond if I click on it. It's a bit unnerving, but helps me empathize with first-time computer users.
Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
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Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#52Very 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?
You can look at the 3.0.0-wip branch on Github. You'll have to download the source yourself and compile it to use it, though.
Technically the CSS is already compiled inside of the docs directory for the documentation, if you wanted to use that.
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#53Resizing the window seems to screw with the positioning of the tooltops (Chrome, Windows 7).
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#54Am 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
So have argyle sweaters, but if an influx of new people started wearing argyle we could still have a debate about whether we liked the argyle sweater trend.
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#55Am 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
Josef Muller Brockmann wasn't designing discoverable interactive UIs, he was designing for print.
There's a difference, and flat design advocates would do us all a favor if they'd try to remember it.
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flat trend? Flat design has been around for decades, i.e. Josef Muller Brockmann
So have argyle sweaters, but if an influx of new people started wearing argyle we could still have a debate about whether we liked the argyle sweater trend.
Its ok in moderation though, like.. argyle socks.
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#57Am 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
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#58While very pretty, these controls make me feel like an old person who is learning how to use a computer for the first time. I have no idea how anything will respond if I click on it. It's a bit unnerving, but helps me empathize with first-time computer users.
I agree with the usability; in terms of aesthetics, it also simply feels heavy-handed.
I don't know where to look, or where to click, because there's simply no nuance -- it's all big boring blocks of colors. It's the opposite of delightful.
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#59I love the work that was put into this and there are some elements that I think are done extremely well and stand on their own...but after seeing a page where everything is flat, I've totally joined the non-flat side of the debate, due to the confusion/ambiguity of the interface...the buttons were especially jarring for me.
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#60I 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.
That, was the single most stupid thing I've heard in a while. "because they are familiar with them". It's websites, not homes for elderly people. It's the designers job to make the user be able to understand where something is and the direction this conversation is heading, I don't think any of you have ever seen good design - or a designer for that matter.
And those who say that a feature that brings in profit is more valuable than how it looks are just money-sucking suits. No wonder you want sites to look the same. It's like lawyers who also dress the same.