Jingshu Chen

Instead of the flat-skeuomorphic spectrum, we should be thinking in terms of cues. A cue is a source or channel of information that helps us to correctly interpret the structure of o…

…ail are a safe place to start, just as they were in mobile (and desktop before it). If we know that lighting and shadow matter, for example, then it makes perfect sense to start by including them with the highest fideli…

The problem with the truly flat approach is that removing textures, lighting, and detail makes it much harder for the visual system to quickly and unambiguously interpret an environment. We need these sources of information to understand what is going on around us, and their absence wi…