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20 Beautiful Examples Of Flat Design

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Flat Design has become an increasingly bigger hot-topic amongst design circles over the past year. Probably the most well-known example is Microsoft’s Metro UI (User Interface). Flat design has been around for a while now and is somewhat of a controversial subject amongst passionate designers and developers; some love it, others don’t. Nevertheless, over the course of the past year we have seen a pretty large number of websites and apps adopt the design scheme, thus its popularity.

So what is flat design?

Flat Design is somewhat difficult to define as doesn’t really refer to one single concept. Instead it can be thought of as number of concepts and practices that together, makeup an umbrella term. One of the main sources of debate seems to be due to the wide spectrum of what is considered ‘Flat Design’ and the apparent ambiguity of its diversity. Essentially it is an umbrella term for layouts and UIs that use a wide color palette, simple icons and a minimalistic layout to construct an interface. Flat Designs commonly don’t employ techniques such as drop shadows, embossing, textures and gradients.
In this article we are going to look at some great examples of Flat Design in websites, apps and icons.

1. oak.is

oak.is - Homef

2. Kikfolio

Kickfolio

3. Etchapps

We make apps - Etch

4. SpellTower

SpellTower

5. Snowbird

Winter

6. Outside The Window

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7. Minima List

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8. Dashboard Widgets

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9. Lorenzo Verzini

Lorenzo Verzini

10. Mail Chimp

MailChimp Annual Report

11. Layer Vault

Layervault

12. Squidee

Squidee

13. Sun by pattern.dk

Sun — simple weather app

14. Coffely

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15. Invoisse

Invoisse

16. Weather Widget by Dylan Opet

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17. Weather App by Rob Vloemans

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18. The Experiential

The Experiential Company

19. Microsoft

Microsoft Home Page - Devices and Services

20. Built By buffalo

Buffalo - Web Development, E-Commerce & Web Design - Brighton UK

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