[inigyou]

I bet people had the same concerns with the transition from Windows 3.1's flat UI (only basic shapes were used) to the pseudo-3D effects of Windows 95.

Although in 3.1 it was easy to tell what was interactable, despite being flat. I attribute this to the use of standardized components almost everywhere.

[Retric]

3.1 wasn’t a flat UI as the shading represented light coming from the top left on a 3D button, windows 2 used a flat design.

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