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by aidenn0 821 days ago
> - You're overdoing it with the shadows. Simple flat design looks cleaner

I'm not a designer, but I strongly disagree with this one. Given a choice between using something flat or something with shadows, I will almost invariably lean towards the latter. The one place I might eliminate shadows for on this site is the "info" callouts on each book page; I don't think shadows communicate anything there and all other shadowed boxes on the site are clickable, while this one is not.

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In this specific case the shadows do not fit the style, they make things look blurry instead of distinct.