A great example of flat design is Google Now, which uses a card-like system to display information brackets.Rather than ghettoizing information inside of static icons, Now displays data on a ...

Responsive Frameworks – Flat design’s claim to fame is its simple visual layout, which is even more dramatic when you consider the skeuomorphic predecessors.

For author and tech design consultant Adam Greenfield, it’s inexplicable that the company has for so long saddled its exquisite devices with “the most awful and mawkish and flat-out tacky ...

Jony Ive’s long era of flat design is dead. At WWDC 2025 today, Apple ushered in “Liquid Glass,” a new interface for iOS 26 ...

A flat website design versus the skeuomorphic control design. It turned out that younger users liked the flat websites a lot more than their older counterparts—by more than half a point on a 1 ...

Guest Apple is changing its entire design approach to this “flat” world with iOS 7 and Microsoft’s Windows 8 has taken a similar approach. But both ignore places where the skeuomorphic model ...

While the design is certainly flat, it is far from skeuomorphic even though it isn’t afraid to embrace a few select elements. Let’s take a closer look at some mobile flat 2.0 characteristics.

This is the biggest UI change we've seen since Apple announced iOS 7 over a decade ago, where it moved from its original skeuomorphic design to a minimalistic "flat" design language.

In iOS 7, the 3D skeuomorphic elements were banished in favour of, well, not quite 2D, but a very flat-looking design with very bright, colorful icons that stood out a mile from the phone.

Apple: An end to skeuomorphic design? Share using Email. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook Share on Linkedin (Image credit: Getty Images) By Tom Chatfield 9th May 2013.