While I'd like the old button as well, I think flat design is great.
When MS brought Windows Phone and then incorporated same language into Windows 8 I was like "wow, Microsoft got it right for the first time".
Same for iOS 7, same for macOS. I never liked the "Apple" look of UIs before they went flat. After they've switched to flat I started to really love it.
Not even talking about developers and designers needing to do less, and users needing to process less cluttered visual stimuli.
Skeuomorphism and non-flat designs in general had a good purpose and they've fulfilled it perfectly by teaching people about how UIs work in those OSes of digital world by making elements looking like real world things like buttons being 3D-ish. But that era is over and we collectively don't need it, so we've switched to something simpler and more efficient it many terms.
Of course, taste is taste and one may hate it, but I love flat design in almost all aspects, and definitely don't think MS and Apple are "stupid" as the blogger says.
When MS brought Windows Phone and then incorporated same language into Windows 8 I was like "wow, Microsoft got it right for the first time".
Same for iOS 7, same for macOS. I never liked the "Apple" look of UIs before they went flat. After they've switched to flat I started to really love it.
Not even talking about developers and designers needing to do less, and users needing to process less cluttered visual stimuli.
Skeuomorphism and non-flat designs in general had a good purpose and they've fulfilled it perfectly by teaching people about how UIs work in those OSes of digital world by making elements looking like real world things like buttons being 3D-ish. But that era is over and we collectively don't need it, so we've switched to something simpler and more efficient it many terms.
Of course, taste is taste and one may hate it, but I love flat design in almost all aspects, and definitely don't think MS and Apple are "stupid" as the blogger says.