20 Beautiful Examples Of Flat Design

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.