What is Flat Design?
Flat design is a newest approach after skeuomorphism. As the generation flourished and has toward modern era also created some changes in users perspective to see a design. In real world also they started to like object with cleaner and simple designs, less colors. Today most of the time users are on screen in which vibrant colors became much strainful for them for longer duration. This resulted in the shift UI design. All of these changes resulted into design system called flat design which took a minimalistic approach. This is design contains a hierarchy, sober and subtle colors with less gradients. Body contains less lines making the frame more simple and less stressful to eyes. This approach eliminated the textured, three-dimensional elements found in skeuomorphism.
Flat design are compatible with responsive web design, which allows designers to optimize interface for multiple screen sizes and orientations. Due to simplistic look of flat design, it help decrease load times, improve navigation, improving the overall user experience.
Difference Between Skeuomorphism and Flat Design in UI
Skeuomorphic designs were used to rule the UI design system in earlier days. Today how outdated it may look but this design has made the user familiar with the ways real-world elements are incorporated in interfaces because of which a paradigm shift from skeuomorphism to flat designs happened easily.
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