A great example of flat design is Google Now, which uses a card-like system to display information brackets.Rather than ghettoizing information inside of static icons, Now displays data on a ...

Flat design is essentially as far away from skeuomorphism as you can get. Compare iOS 7’s bold colors, unadorned icons, transparent overlays, and typography-based design to its immediate ...

Instagram has been updated today with an all-new colorful icon, moving away from its iconic brown and beige logo that still had an iOS 6-style skeuomorphic design, long after many popular ...

Google today unveiled revamped app icons for its family of Play apps to bring each one in line with the company’s more colorful flat design aesthetic. There have been separate apps for services ...

Here are some of the other icon redesigns — see Tom’s blog for all the examples he’s noticed:. Flat design has spread its levelling influence all over the tech industry and its interfaces in ...

Design patents cover the “new, original, and ornamental design embodied in or applied to an article of manufacture.” Design patents can be obtained for computer generated icons, including GUIs ...