One major reason why it made sense to drop skeuomorphism in iOS is because the screens it's running on are a lot smaller. Adding depth to interface elements takes a fair number of pixels/screen real estate, which leaves less room for the actual content the person is interested in.
I used to think this, until I started looking more closely at flat designs and I realized that designs using separator lines and shadow, were very effective at showing visual hierarchy in a compact way. Once those are taken away, it is very hard to see how items are grouped and related. The only way left to show those relationships, is to add space and that’s the reason why today’s flat designed have a lower density of information that the prior designs.
Those pre-ios7 designs showed a lot of information on very small screens (all pre-iPhone 6).
Windows Ribbons are another type of terrible UI design, the top down menu Mac UI just works better, Ribbons little icons at random in little windows everywhere just doesn’t work well. And when you combine it with flat UI it gets even worse.
One major reason why it made sense to drop skeuomorphism in iOS is because the screens it's running on are a lot smaller. Adding depth to interface elements takes a fair number of pixels/screen real estate, which leaves less room for the actual content the person is interested in.
I used to think this, until I started looking more closely at flat designs and I realized that designs using separator lines and shadow, were very effective at showing visual hierarchy in a compact way. Once those are taken away, it is very hard to see how items are grouped and related. The only way left to show those relationships, is to add space and that’s the reason why today’s flat designed have a lower density of information that the prior designs.
Those pre-ios7 designs showed a lot of information on very small screens (all pre-iPhone 6).
Windows Ribbons are another type of terrible UI design, the top down menu Mac UI just works better, Ribbons little icons at random in little windows everywhere just doesn’t work well. And when you combine it with flat UI it gets even worse.
Ribbons are great!!! Love MS Office.
Colorblind? MS Office still sucks always fun to use anything but that abomination, Pages, Nisus Writer, BBEdit, OmniOutliner, or a page layout program have always work much better.
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