Re: At last - confirmation of the abundantly obvious
"The 'flat' and related interface principles are utter crap when it comes to usability - there are sadly very few neutral formal assessments of the usability of the more recent elements so this is a refreshing confirmation."
I disagree. The need to "show" a user what constitutes an interactive element can be in itself a failure of user interface design. Metro worked very well because the the user intrinsically knew where to find what they were looking for. Not so in any of the copy cats that took one *minor* element of Metro (flatness) and decided that was enough to make a good clone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
