Beyond Flat

#1

Post by fairydust » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 12:21 PM UTC

Beyond Flat
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Re: Beyond Flat

#2

Post by nacker_hews » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 12:25 PM UTC

Interesting. I'd also be curious to see a post that only compares iOS 6 against iOS 7.

Re: Beyond Flat

#3

Post by tpetrina » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 12:55 PM UTC

This failed to go beyond Flat UI concepts, it merely compared iOS and Android guidelines. It's more of a "contemporary Flat UI design".

When viewed that way, it actually is a good article.

Re: Beyond Flat

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Post by mortenjorck » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

tpetrina wrote: post #3

This failed to go beyond Flat UI concepts, it merely compared iOS and Android guidelines. It's more of a "contemporary Flat UI design". When viewed that way, it actually is a good article.

I was expecting something more along the lines of this post that I wrote a few months ago: http://interuserface.net/2013/05/flat-is-not-the-opposite-of... One of my draft titles for it was "moving beyond flat and skeuomorphic."

Re: Beyond Flat

#5

Post by nwh » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 1:52 PM UTC

Why does this obnoxious website hide my scroll bar? I've absolutely no idea how long the article is without it.

Re: Beyond Flat

#6

Post by pixelmonkey » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 2:02 PM UTC

Great article, though mis-titled.

A more appropriate title might be something like, "iOS vs Android native app design, similarities & differences".

Re: Beyond Flat

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Post by icebraining » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

nwh wrote: post #5

Why does this obnoxious website hide my scroll bar? I've absolutely no idea how long the article is without it.

Odd, it doesn't hide mine, neither in Firefox nor in Chromium.

Re: Beyond Flat

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Post by mscottmcbee » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

Good comparison, but I found the point about the back button being needless and confusing a bit weird. Using Android as my primary mobile OS, I feel like someone's cut off a thumb whenever I use iOS devices. The back button, to me, is fairly critical.

Re: Beyond Flat

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Post by didgeoridoo » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

nwh wrote: post #5

Why does this obnoxious website hide my scroll bar? I've absolutely no idea how long the article is without it.

I'm seeing it as a very faint gray outline. My guess is that the svbtle theme is using the shadow DOM to customize scrollbar appearance (couldn't find where he's doing it in a cursory search of the applied styles though). Check out Chris Coyier's article on the subject here: http://css-tricks.com/custom-scrollbars-in-webkit/

Re: Beyond Flat

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Post by Pxtl » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 2:47 PM UTC

If you're going to discuss flat UI and compare the major platforms, omitting WP8 is absurd. WP7 jumped straight into the deep end of modern flat design, and WP8 continued the trend - some of the new iOS screens look like palette-swaps of Windows Phone.