It was a well-known approach to mobile UI for many years since it helped people to imitate the real world using lighting and shading effects.”
Flat design has been introduced with the motive to provide more aesthetic innovations along with a more user-friendly mobile environment.
These flat images look nice to decorate the webpage as well as allow the users to easily navigate through the page and read the valuable content.
Apple’s Flat design approach is independent of multi-dimensional elements and plays just with fonts, colors, and icons to enhance the beauty of the page.
Also, there are some mobile applications that demand complicated visual cues to guide the user through the process, which is one of the pain points of implementing the flat design style.
The Google’s material app design approach looks flat, but stays multi-dimensional, thanks to the application of z-axis.
Google Material Design and The Story of Shape System
In 2014, Google took a bold move with a new design initiative that’s Material design to weave a visual language in the app’s UI which is based on ethical design principles.
The latest update to Google Material design includes- ‘Shape’, which is most often remain unnoticed when it comes to expressing hierarchy and the brand in the application design.
The use of the different shapes helps the developers in directing the user’s attention, encouraging communication, expressing brand, or easy recognition of the things.
It also aids in communicating the relationships between the various UI elements and highlight the action that you want the users to perform.
A large number of shapes can be used to express brand visual language, but they must be used in tandem with other customizations (Use of text or icons) and applied strategically in a consistent manner through an app.
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User interfaces developed very fast; the world has plunged into a flat design style.
Absence of details, simplified and faint colors.
There are so many who really enjoyed its simplicity, but also a major of those who doesn’t like at all; because some stuff was completely cleaned.
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Google various applications such as Google Drive, Google Maps and Gmail meet the standards of Material Design.
Other famous platforms Tumblr, Evernote, Telegram have also updated according to the flat design guidelines.
Card Layouts and Swipe Navigation
Card layouts is another great trend that can improve the UX by making it interactive, dynamic and engaging.
The main objective of this trend is to keep UI designers focus more functionality instead of visual effects.
The idea of card layouts is to combine all the important information displaying in special boxes that are outlined differently and provide an easy access to more information with a single tap.
The UX-design area is very dynamic.
Especially when you consider that new directions of design and improved capabilities have appeared.
Jason Gerard Clab is quite categorical in its assessments.
From the category of the unspoken rule, they will become a direct example of how to do not need to.
They will be as follows:
The concept of material design, which offers a giant of Google area, has been consolidating its positions for several years.
