From things like web pages to colors, let's discuss them here.
Web trends circa 2012: http://weavora.com/blog/2012/10/21/web-design-trends-we-love/

In 2012 there were still some shadows and 3D buttons:
http://e74353ead30dd7be0710-1ccf8c49ceb7c849aaaf74340108d66d.r5.cf2.rackcdn.com/trends_oversized_images.jpg

In 2013 sunset/sunrise backgrounds were popular: https://www.freewebshop.org/4-top-web-design-trends-for-2013/

The 2013 color of the year was Emerald: https://www.designboom.com/design/pantone-color-of-the-year-2013-emerald/

Other popular web colors circa 2013:
http://exaktmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Picture-1.png

To be honest, I miss depth and things like shadows/gradients and 3D effects. Now everything is too flat. But I don't miss the late 2000s OTT 3D/gradient era. But even the flat sites circa 2011-2014 were better. The blues were more subtle, since 2015 there are some very screaming blue hues. What early 2010s trends do you remember?

Anything that looks dated now? What about interior/furniture design? :)

From things like web pages to colors, let's discuss them here.
Web trends circa 2012: http://weavora.com/blog/2012/10/21/web-design-trends-we-love/

In 2012 there were still some shadows and 3D buttons:
http://e74353ead30dd7be0710-1ccf8c49ceb7c849aaaf74340108d66d.r5.cf2.rackcdn.com/trends_oversized_images.jpg

In 2013 sunset/sunrise backgrounds were popular: https://www.freewebshop.org/4-top-web-design-trends-for-2013/

The 2013 color of the year was Emerald: https://www.designboom.com/design/pantone-color-of-the-year-2013-emerald/

Other popular web colors circa 2013:
http://exaktmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Picture-1.png

To be honest, I miss depth and things like shadows/gradients and 3D effects. Now everything is too flat. But I don't miss the late 2000s OTT 3D/gradient era. But even the flat sites circa 2011-2014 were better. The blues were more subtle, since 2015 there are some very screaming blue hues. What early 2010s trends do you remember?

Anything that looks dated now? What about interior/furniture design? :)


I have a strong distaste for the 2013 flat logo trend, around 2015 the whole yeezy season muted  beige colors took over I really hate that lol, its dying now tho thank god.
As for home decor its very flat and (outside mall ish) insides of stores look like a museum now, very hollow,  around 2013 2014 2015 Simon malls began painting their low performing malls Brown and beige making them look worse.

In the early 2010s a cool, hip, trendy open office was what I imagined working at an American company would be. Something like this:
http://smallbizclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Price-of-Collaboration.jpg or this:
https://officechai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Open-office-Google-ireland-1024x576.jpg

yet, the reality is more like this which screams corporate slavery and hamster wheel:
https://www.buildings.com/Portals/0/images/Magazines/2014/0514/B_0514_OfficeUtilization6.jpg

Open office layouts are more suitable for smaller units/teams. Being in open office with 200 people is too much and distracting. Maybe I should've went the creative route instead of corporate financing lol. Too bad sales departments look alike soulless.

The early 2010’s was the last period of skeuomorphic design, where you can see softwares and websites with 3D shape, contrast and based in real objects, while in the mid-late 2010’s everything became minimalist.
iOS 6 could be considered the last vestige of the bubble 2000’s design in the early 2010’s.

https://4sthjb2mi91c3ak2-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/oldvsnew_icons.jpg
Skeuomorphic vs Flat design
http://softwarefocus.net/inclosure/gateway/media/2016/09/tumblr_npng1r5bsc1uvsikzo1_1280-800x428.jpg

I think designers just got lazy. Flat design is much easier to create. Lack of realistic images and 3d light effects make designing logos and icons much easier. It's kinda a return to the print-like retro flat logos. I remember doing one of these shiny logos with Ps and it was very time-consuming. Designing a flat logo/icon is much easier and saves time. I was one of the first lol. I had flat web design icons and buttons on my personal website in 2008. Back then everything was about glass/Vista-like icons.

I have a strong distaste for the 2013 flat logo trend

Flat logos did not start in 2013, it started in 2008.

2008:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Pepsi_logo_2008.svg/432px-Pepsi_logo_2008.svg.png

And this is from 2010:
https://icdn3.digitaltrends.com/image/google_2013-456x160.jpg

I think designers just got lazy. Flat design is much easier to create. Lack of realistic images and 3d light effects make designing logos and icons much easier. It's kinda a return to the print-like retro flat logos. I remember doing one of these shiny logos with Ps and it was very time-confusing. Designing a flat logo/icon is much easier and saves time. I was one of the first lol. I had flat web design icons and buttons on my personal website in 2008. Back then everything was about glass/Vista-like icons.

I hate the flat design trend so much. I will be so happy when that trend dies but sadly it probably won't go away until at least 2025. 3D looks wayyyy better and more futuristic. I bet you anything people will love it when it comes back in the future.

The early 2010’s was the last period of skeuomorphic design, where you can see softwares and websites with 3D shape, contrast and based in real objects, while in the mid-late 2010’s everything became minimalist.
iOS 6 could be considered the last vestige of the bubble 2000’s design in the early 2010’s.

https://4sthjb2mi91c3ak2-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/oldvsnew_icons.jpg
Skeuomorphic vs Flat design
http://softwarefocus.net/inclosure/gateway/media/2016/09/tumblr_npng1r5bsc1uvsikzo1_1280-800x428.jpg

InThe00s has stayed in the 00s in terms of its design, and I'm happy with that.  :)

Maybe I should've went the creative route instead of corporate financing lol. Too bad sales departments look alike soulless.

It's never too late to switch careers.

Flat logos did not start in 2013, it started in 2008.

2008:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Pepsi_logo_2008.svg/432px-Pepsi_logo_2008.svg.png

And this is from 2010:
https://icdn3.digitaltrends.com/image/google_2013-456x160.jpg


This is the 2010 logo actually:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Googlelogo.png/456px-Googlelogo.png

There was still a bit of a 3D look in 2010. Despite the flat look starting in 2008, it didn't become dominant until 2013.

The logo got flat in 2013. In the mid 2010s it was replaced by the current Google logo which looks rather generic.

The site I found it from said it was from 2010, but I think you're right. But still it did not start in 2013, the trend started in 2008 and got popular as the years went on throughout the early 2010s. Companies just kept implementing it as time went on. And using Apple as an example for iOS isn't good, Apple is slow to everything. They only changed their design in 2013 to keep up with the times, they didn't invent it.

Flat logos have always been a thing though, it's just more common nowadays because the design also widely used in technology too. The "flat design interface" trend started in 2012 when Microsoft launched Windows 8, but it didn't really took off until Apple made it cool by releasing IOS 7 in 2013. Since then so many websites went with that minimalistic approach.

Flat logos have always been a thing though, it's just more common nowadays because the design also widely used in technology too. The "flat design interface" trend started in 2012 when Microsoft launched Windows 8, but it didn't really took off until Apple made it cool by releasing IOS 7 in 2013. Since then so many websites went with that minimalistic approach.

No it started in 2008. I showed you Pepsi's new logo and their commercial from 2009.

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This ad uses the flat design that is common today and it's nearly 10 years old and doesn't even seem dated.

Flat logos were not always a thing. Only in the 80s and now since the late 2000s. The 1990s and 2000s were about 3D design.

It dd not start in 2012 or 2013. If you were to argue they got really popular then, I would agree. But "start"? No.

No it started in 2008. I showed you Pepsi's new logo and their commercial from 2009.

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This ad uses the flat design that is common today and it's nearly 10 years old and doesn't even seem dated.

Flat logos were not always a thing. Only in the 80s and now since the late 2000s. The 1990s and 2000s were about 3D design.

It dd not start in 2012 or 2013. If you were to argue they got really popular then, I would agree. But "start"? No.

Absolutely incorrect in every way, the flat interface has zero to do with the Pepsi logo or logos in general so that's a very irrelevant point to raise. Nintendo also went for a flat logo for the Wii instead of a 3d-logo like the Gamecube, so maybe the flat design started in 2006??? ::)

Reading it up closely, the flat interface was actually designed by Microsoft, which was called the "Metro" skin. It was used throughout the 2000s for small programs, with only the Zune being a complete product using it (which ended up being a major flop). It only picked up commercially with the Windows Phone 7 release in 2010, which is what Windows 8 was based on. It also of course blew once Apple took that design.

Also flat logos are extremely common, just look at the logos of Windows, Apple, IBM or Playstation in the 90s.

Flat logos/design is mad old. The oldest versions of them started in Japan in the 1200s. These family/clan crests would then evolve to logos as many family businesses used their family crest to advertise their business.

https://goldengears.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/japanese-kamon3.jpg?w=640&h=634

By the 20th century they evolved to the current:

https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/history/logo/images/logo_yamaha_corp.gif https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTn164UemqflMnqhBtsOM3-yIjvauukn1kQ4xXlN34GazzDlAev

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And... International Typographic Style (also known as Swiss Design) started in the early 20th century, which would then blossom in the late 50s-70s. This is arguably THE quintessential minimalist/flat design style.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBGoj048mtl04JYQxJO9pcEVwwSbDmAD9q2roC5zdzfQJaakwd https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMhfmvGaD1tqwlYwJLoI3SCk1IKdXj1cF7BzxrSBzhQ14PMs-N https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-cSTE_bTZYi9Lc_XPCzSujimO4ld2ndANfPmuu84JvtRPKJsh https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQnTtYuXkkga0nwfEdr9auovMgLQmTcDdsOHrLDAL3iGqPl7sY https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHhBzLViGFV4GY2baCk1T5BSC7xW4tRbQPLWO3SOHuCbVEVcQd

In the early 2010s a cool, hip, trendy open office was what I imagined working at an American company would be. Something like this:
http://smallbizclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Price-of-Collaboration.jpg or this:
https://officechai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Open-office-Google-ireland-1024x576.jpg

yet, the reality is more like this which screams corporate slavery and hamster wheel:
https://www.buildings.com/Portals/0/images/Magazines/2014/0514/B_0514_OfficeUtilization6.jpg

Open office layouts are more suitable for smaller units/teams. Being in open office with 200 people is too much and distracting. Maybe I should've went the creative route instead of corporate financing lol. Too bad sales departments look alike soulless.


Ughhh my office looks like that and I hate it too. I actually want a cubicle lmao ;D Privacy >>> whatever the f*ck the modern office is supposed to be accomplishing.

The break room looks like the second pic though. That's where I play my video games :P

Various kinds of teal, electric greens and electric blues were big with commercials and public transport branding here in 2013. I especially remember the Nestle ice-cream ad from 2013. I admit, it was quite funky.

I think designers just got lazy. Flat design is much easier to create. Lack of realistic images and 3d light effects make designing logos and icons much easier. It's kinda a return to the print-like retro flat logos. I remember doing one of these shiny logos with Ps and it was very time-consuming. Designing a flat logo/icon is much easier and saves time. I was one of the first lol. I had flat web design icons and buttons on my personal website in 2008. Back then everything was about glass/Vista-like icons.
I like flat design because no one should have to pursue an art degree just to make a usable interface. I did like pre-flat design but felt they were very elitist, because one would have needed to make things look like real life objects, which is something only artists are typically good at doing.

I hate flat design so much it looks so ugly.

I hate flat design so much it looks so ugly.

How does this look?

https://freedesignfile.com/upload/2016/11/Minimalist-Dark-Web-UI-With-Psd-Button.jpg
If flat design being unusable is the reason you hate it, this may be a better alternative. Otherwise, if there's anything non-flat I like, it's anything that uses the frosted glass or Gaussian blur effect.
http://www.sysprobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/aeroicon.png
I now dislike non-flat design except for this because it requires users to have an art degree to be able to design an attractive user interface in the first place.

I don't like the colourful flat design that is especially popupar today. I like 3D design like in Windows 7 and old logos from the 2000s.