Flat design is essentially as far away from skeuomorphism as you can get. Compare iOS 7’s bold colors, unadorned icons, transparent overlays, and typography-based design to its immediate ...

That may not surprise you–especially if you’ve ever watched an older person try to navigate a super-flat website for a few minutes. But whether or not a user likes a design is only half the story.

A great example of flat design is Google Now, which uses a card-like system to display information brackets.Rather than ghettoizing information inside of static icons, Now displays data on a ...

Everyone's talking about flat. Flat Windows 8, flat Apple iOS 7, flat Google+ and Google Now—flat is the design trend du jour, yet we're still waiting for its arrival. So what the heck is it?