Flat design is essentially as far away from skeuomorphism as you can get. ... no gradients, no shadows, and embraces the 2-D nature of a modern smartphone display.

A great example of flat design is Google Now, which uses a card-like system to display information brackets.Rather than ghettoizing information inside of static icons, Now displays data on a ...

Everyone's talking about flat. Flat Windows 8, flat Apple iOS 7, flat Google+ and Google Now—flat is the design trend du jour, yet we're still waiting for its arrival. So what the heck is it?

Guest Apple is changing its entire design approach to this “flat” world with iOS 7 and Microsoft’s Windows 8 has taken a similar approach. But both ignore places where the skeuomorphic model ...