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.