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Flat design and the disappearing of skeumorphic design.
I had to look up skeumorphic.
It's the best UI design in the history of design IMHO. That's what it is. Things were alive with it. Now, everything is flat and gross.
Skeuomorphic design stinks. It showed up beginning with QuickTime 4 on the Macintosh, with curvy rounded buttons as if it was some kind of midrange stereo equipment. Soon there were serious apps with goddamn late 1970s wood paneling. And buttons with little glowy imitation LEDs under them instead of an obvious selected/unselected display.
Expose the app's controls in a way that fits neatly into the surrounding interface and is easily learnable by the typical user. Don't pretend that it's thirty to fifty years ago and you're building a piece of luxury hardware. You're not. It's a program on a modern computer system, and it can bloody well act like it.
And the 50 shades of grey colour palette that makes every element look identical - Can I click this? Let's find out!