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I sense that, albeit slowly, big companies are moving back to more complicated skeuomorphic-like designs.

Here YouTube’s adding a (very subtle) gradient. Better examples may be: compare the newest macOS icons to those from the Sierra (?); and the new Reddit logo has a slight 3D effect, while I remember the old one was flat.

Allegedly styles and fashion go in cycles, so maybe minimalism is going out of fashion. I doubt we’ll get old YouTube or OS X Snow Leopard, but we’ll get something different.



I think this is the thesis, antithesis, synthesis cycle:

Thesis = full skeumorphic 2005 YouTube logo

Antithesis = flat 2015 YouTube logo

Synthesis = "Material" design. Light 3D effects.




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