Animations are fun. I recently created my first animated widget and it felt great. Going from "it works" to "it works and is animated" is a huge step. The animation really helps to tell the story of the switching in my widget. Think the animation of the Chrome tabs when you're switching them by dragging.
Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
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#62Am 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.
My objection to flat design is that it gives up useful visual cues. Items seen as closer deserve more of our attention. Raised items have a greater importance.
Yes you could use size to convey this, but unless you want many many sizes, you have limited the vocal range of your website.
If we are now horse-trading visual cues in search of ever simpler sites, why not websites in simple, monochromatic black and white?
Re: Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
#63Very 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.
Every time someone talks about a web tendency, there will be someone saying that Bootstrap 3 is heading towards it. I'm really wondering what Bootstrap 3 will looks like.
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#64Where could non-designers learn how to use color swatches in custom designs?
The Flat UI's Color Swatches look delicious and I'd like to learn to use them.
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#65Nice yeah, but I think shadows for buttons will make it best. Also way make it with sass when bootstrap use less? That complicate retrofit it for older projects...
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The fact that he wasn't designing for web doesn't mean his style (or other creatives for that matter) didn't influence the medium. Not to mention there is nothing that says a flat style is superior given that there are so many additional factors in web analytics.
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#67Where could non-designers learn how to use color swatches in custom designs? The Flat UI's Color Swatches look delicious and I'd like to learn to use them.
Generally color swatches are paired to give a suggestion for a complementary or accent color that is determined according to prevailing color theory. Sometimes you'll see the primary color with 2 to 4 other swatches, depending on the color relation used (tertiary, complementary, etc).
I use compass-colors to apply this concept to my stylesheets.
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#68Agree with most of the usability comments here but have to give kudos for the color selection. They are phenomenal. I'd love to see a bootstrap theme implement these. Maybe I'll whip up the sass vars file later.
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#69These are nice, but I wish they hadn't picked the exact same shade of green as Layer Vault ( https://layervault.com/ )…
I was actually going to post thanks layervault. Wow. Is it really that hard to do original work.
Is that what constitutes "original work"? Use a slightly different color?
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#70The color swatches paired up very nicely!