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I deeply hate the style of design that's become popular over the past few years. "No borders, flat text and flat buttons, multiple fonts and font sizes on the screen at all times, heavily simplistic and hidden menus".

I use software to build stuff, damn it. I want well-notated and labelled complexity. Stop making my tools look like an elementary school classroom in a dystopian short film.

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The "Tertiary button" example in the article. How is this a button? It's a piece of text. Zero visual indication whatsoever that it functions as a button.

I've done my fair share of front end dev and I like modern flat designs, however these text-only buttons take it too far.

I once counted twenty different methods of indicating that something was clickable on a single screen in a Jira build my company was using. They ranged from a button with depth to literally nothing but blank white.

I liked the piece overall but this felt like granting an imprimatur to dark pattern design.

I recently watched Cowboy Bepop and was astonished how pleasantly the complex and alien UX/UI looked

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