{"id":12777,"date":"2015-11-10T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:09:34","slug":"long-term-exposure-to-flat-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/long-term-exposure-to-flat-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/industrious.info\/2015\/11\/08\/long-term-exposure-to-flat-design-how-the-trend-slowly-decreases-user-efficiency\/\">Kate Meyer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/industrious.info\/2015\/11\/08\/long-term-exposure-to-flat-design-how-the-trend-slowly-decreases-user-efficiency\/\">\n<p>Clickable UI elements with absent or weak visual signifiers condition users over time to click and hover uncertainly across pages&mdash;reducing efficiency and increasing reliance on contextual cues and immediate click feedback. Young adult users may be better at perceiving subtle clickability clues, but they don&rsquo;t enjoy click uncertainty any more than other age groups.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The motivation behind minimalist and flat design was a desire to get the ugly distractions out of the interface, so that the focus is on the content and user tasks. It&rsquo;s ironic, then, that the misuse of these design styles slows users down by forcing them to think harder about what options are available to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Meyer: Clickable UI elements with absent or weak visual signifiers condition users over time to click and hover uncertainly across pages&mdash;reducing efficiency and increasing reliance on contextual cues and immediate click feedback. Young adult users may be better at perceiving subtle clickability clues, but they don&rsquo;t enjoy click uncertainty any more than other age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,30,96],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}