Colour me bright

Is flat design a thing of the past?

For the best part of a decade we’ve seen flat designs reign supreme in the design industry, however, in recent years gradients have made a strong comeback and this summer we expect this trend to increase with the use of bright (and sometimes clashing) colours.

Apple seem to have been instrumental (again) in this change with gradients appearing in their operating systems and cutting edge companies like Skype and Stripe integrating gradients into their brands.

Apple's use of colour transitions, bucked the trend of Flat designs.

Gradients, or rather the more fashionable term of ‘colour transitions’ have also been finding their way in flat designs and are often called ‘Flat 2.0’ which