Modern UI

At the time of writing this, the flat design paradigm is trending in the interface design field, systematically taking over every platform, be it Web, mobile, or desktop. Prominent examples of this paradigm shift in the wild are iOS 7 and later and Windows 8 and later. Internet companies followed suit with the "Material design principles" presented at Google I/O 2014 conference, along with many other HTML5 frameworks, including the well-established ones, for example, Bootstrap.

Conveniently, the flat design emphasizes content over presentation, omitting photo-realistic shadows and detailed textures in favor of plain colors and simple geometry. It is by all means simpler to create programmatically than the "old school" skeuomorphic design ...

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