The kindly folks over at App Design Vault have produced iPhone-sized Flat UI templates for several common app and Website screens. With templates and tools, this installment of Free for All will help you get a jump on designing your apps, Websites, and maybe even print designs for the new flat Earth. Whether because of Windows’ “Metro” user interface or critics, Apple is finally following Microsoft and Google into the world of flat design. Google itself released its flat design brand guidelines just ahead of WWDC, making Apple the last significant mobile OS to the flat design party. Many Android apps also adopted a flat design over the last few years. Perhaps coincidentally, it’s been about that long that the criticism of Apple’s skeumorphic design has been at a fever pitch (see this article from Forbes). Flat interface design has flourished for about three years on Windows-powered phones and preview releases of Windows 8 for desktop and tablets. What’s being called “flat UI” or “flat interface design” will comprise the new iOS. Gone will be the used yellow legal pad interface to the onboard Notes app gone will be the 3D shelves in iBooks and Newsstand gone will be the semi-realistic pages in iBooks gone will be the elegant stitched leather atop the Find My Friends app, and gone will be app icons with shiny veneers and drop shadows. iOS 7, which is slated for a late-2013 release, will move away from the real-world imitating, 3D-esque, skeumorphic designs that adorn current versions of the devices. Last month at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Apple unveiled a major departure for the next version of iOS, the operating system that runs its iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices.
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