Flat design: Flat UI Suite Recommendation

Article Description: Flat design-–keep it simple.

2013 can be said to be a flat design of the year. Before flattening the era, the designer's works are often very realistic, very have three-dimensional sense! But now even Apple, the creator of the design, has had to switch its design ideas and begin to explore flat designs on iOS 7.

What is flat design?

For designers, flat design is a kind of the design style, do not trick, do not whitewash. From the overall perspective, flat design is a minimalist aesthetic, with bright and soft colors, and finally with a heavy eye-catching, and retro style of the font. The flat design simplifies the interface elements such as buttons and icons.

The big picture replaces the dynamic effect. In minimalist design, designers usually give ample space for communication so that they can simply and directly describe the content. From the flat design has derived several different schools: "Flat-like design" and "Long projection design" is the recent repeated emphasis on two concepts.

"Flat-like design" (almost Flat) is based on flat design, but adds some simple effects, such as simple projections, basic gradients.

"Long projection Design" icon design more use, is generally a 45-degree angle of the shadow from the extension from the icon, the most recent icon design, most of the use of "long projection design."

Efficient application of Flat UI suite (UI kits)

Through the UI suite, we can have a preliminary understanding of flat design. The suite is very time-saving-it's free to choose the elements in the suite and then do your own experiments. Most UI suites are formatted as PSD and are very easy to edit.

Flat UI Suite Recommendation

The following range of UI packages is recommended, ranging from simple free to complex charging, to a flat UI suite that is really getting more and more.

Simplicity, support for the retina (Retina), photo scrolling arrows, buttons, simple icons, everything. Moderate in size, retro in color.

Produced by Designmodo, dark style, contains a variety of buttons and panels, a little Win8 style. And it's flat with a little fitting style.

Contains some very useful basic elements, such as social Network login button, menu, Media Player, the color is very flat.

Contains a number of elements from the Drop-down menu to the navigation bar to the social sharing tool.

Flat icon Recommended

The flat design icons are everywhere and the resources are plentiful. As with the UI suite, most icons are in PSD format, which can be modified to suit your personal situation. Many of the icons are designed to be professional and designed specifically for a particular type of application. This icon is also suitable for making buttons. When you choose to download the icon, remember that the size of the selection should be appropriate. There are vector graphics, and some will lose quality when magnified.

Widely used, covering almost all popular sites in Europe and America, and the use of long projection design. The high degree of identification between different icons is achieved by using the nuances of color and projection. Each icon has 4 sizes of--32,64,128 and 256.

Very good work, with some SEO-related icons, flat + long projection, for some organizations is very appropriate.

Try more, you can do flat design

Author: Hong Ye original link: http://uxc.360.cn/archives/1430.htm