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xigoiyesterday at 8:34 AM1 replyview on HN

> pretty low effort, trivially to Google (or ask AI) and generally a bit on the ignorant side

I know the most common reason why people prefer skeuomorphic design (the visual metaphor), which is why my original reply directly addressed this complaint by saying that it’s no longer relevant. Some other complaints I’ve found online are about specific bad instances of flat design rather than flat designs in general. Therefore, I am asking about reasons that don’t fall under these two categories, which I haven’t been able to find.


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Retricyesterday at 5:17 PM

I’ve never seen a single instance of flat design without any significant usability issues.

A core issue is UI is a language and by reinventing things from scratch you ended up with some designs choosing A to represent something toggled on, and some designs using A to show the exact opposite. Thus a user needed to interact with that specific design to learn core functionality.