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by aliston
4783 days ago
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Flat UI has become a common theme on a number of popular iOS apps. Spotify, Yelp, Truila, Google Maps etc. have all moved to flat UI recently... are all of those apps "disregarding platform conventions?" Of course not. If anything, they have made flat UI a convention in itself, just like pull-down-to-refresh, large center tab buttons and slide-right navigation weren't originally/aren't native widgets, but have become commonplace. The rumor is that iOS 7 is going to change to a flatter appearance anyway, so in a few weeks this all might be moot. |
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I don't use the others, but I often get confused using Google Maps because I have no idea what all the new/unusual UI elements do.
Once I learn Google Maps' way of doing things, I don't want to have to learn a new way for every other app, too.
More to the point, I'd rather not have to learn how to use Google Maps' nonstandard UI to begin with.
> The rumor is that iOS 7 is going to change to a flatter appearance anyway, so in a few weeks this all might be moot.
That's a good point, because the way Apple rolls out incremental UI tweaks is by changing the standard components in backwards-compatible ways.
If you roll your own components, you have to work harder to keep up.
I would emphasize the word "incremental". If you examine the progression of Mac OS X across the past decade, there are significant changes, but they were done cleanly and incrementally and in a way that was immediate familiar to existing users.
I do not believe that we'll see iOS 7 pick up 'flat design' as defined here.