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Creating Flat Design Websites

By : António Pratas
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Creating Flat Design Websites

By: António Pratas

Overview of this book

<p>Flat design is a simple yet visually appealing and increasingly popular style, particularly good for people just starting to develop their own websites. This book helps you to create a simple and good looking product in the flat design style.</p> <p>Creating Flat Design Websites will cover the origins of flat design, its principles as a visual style, and how to start designing right away, always making sure that the interface designed doesn't suffer from usability problems. Learn to design and develop your flat website with external frameworks to save time and money in your project. The book also provides you with tips to avoid the usability mistakes that commonly accompany this style due to its simple look and elements, as well as how to start developing the look of your website in HTML and CSS. Finally, you will learn how you can create your own Flat UI kit to suit your needs.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 1. What is Flat Design?

In this chapter, what flat design is and how this style came to be will be explained. We will cover its predecessors in graphic design since 1950, moving on to how important skeuomorphic design was in the process of making flat design one of the biggest trends in digital design in the last few years.

We will also learn what the current status of flat design is, how it has been adopted by some of the biggest brands in the market, and how we interact everyday with interfaces designed in flat design. There's also a simple exercise to help you understand how to build a skeuomorphic element and its flat counterpart, to better clarify the differences between skeuomorphic and flat design.