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Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design(elischiff.com)
8 years ago from Ivan Bozic, Founder @ arsfutura.com
Ben MJT, 8 years ago
The latest way of describing this debate as “flat vs skeumorphic” only demonstrates a lack of knowledge about history, aesthetics and critical thinking in the design field,
Yes, yes, yes. I've said this for a while now, designers don't read, and this whole skeuno/flat charade perfectly exemplifies it.
Obviously you misunderstand what I mean, throughout history there has been an endless debate over ornamentalisation.
The latest way of describing this debate as “flat vs skeumorphic” only demonstrates a lack of knowledge about history, aesthetics and critical thinking in the design field, are we just pixel pushers?.
I for one do not propose that one is better than the other, simply that one ought to use the tools that work for the job at hand.
Sometimes it'll be flat, sometimes it'll be skeumorphic, actually in the end those very distinctions are pointless and meaningless, what one ought to do is design what's best for the goal at hand using ALL the tools at our disposal.